Environmental

Northern Lights Against POPs tells the many-faceted scientific, policy, legal, and advocacy story that led to the Stockholm convention. Unique in its perspective, scope, and breadth, it reveals the key links among environmental and health science, international politics, advocacy, law, and global negotiations. Never before have public health concer …

As oil reserves decline and the environment takes centre stage inpublic policy discussions, the merits and dangers of nuclear power andnuclear waste management are once again being debated. NuclearWaste Management in Canada provides a critical counterpoint to theposition of government and industry by examining not only the technicalbut also the soc …

The flush of a toilet is routine. It is safe, efficient,necessary, nonpolitical, and utterly unremarkable. Yet JamieBenidickson’s examination of the social and legal history ofsewage in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdomdemonstrates that the uncontroversial reputation of flushing isdeceptive. The Culture of Flushing investigates an …

With a growing commitment to environmental awareness and protection on the part of corporations and governments, there has never been a greater need for an integrated toolkit and management framework for achieving long-term sustainability targets. Dixon Thompson responds to this need by presenting a set of twenty-two environmental management tools …

Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment is a case study of the Alachlor Controversy of 1985 in which the Canadian Minister of Agriculture cancelled the registration of the herbicide alachlor. This book demonstrates the opinion that risk assessments by scientific experts as well as ordinary citizens are guided by dominant values held by the assessors. …