Reducing Toxics
A New Approach To Policy And Industrial Decisionmaking
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Public Policy, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Environmental Conservation & Protection
| Author: | Robert Gottlieb | ISBN: | 9781610911023 |
| Publisher: | Island Press | Publication: | April 22, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Island Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Robert Gottlieb |
| ISBN: | 9781610911023 |
| Publisher: | Island Press |
| Publication: | April 22, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Island Press |
| Language: | English |
In Reducing Toxics, leading experts address industry, technology, health, and policy issues and explore the potential for pollution prevention at the industry and facility levels. They consider both the regulatory and institutional settings of toxics reduction initiatives, prescribe strategies for developing a prevention framework, and apply these principles in analyzing industry case studies. Among the topics considered are: the evolution of, and limits to, currenvironmental policy incorporating prevention into production planning and decisionmaking do voluntary programs lead to industry greening or greenwashing? case studies of the chemical, aerosols, radiator repair and electric vehicle industries opportunities for and barriers to pollution prevention Reducing Toxics offers an analytic framework for defining and understanding differapproaches in the toxics area and describes the basis for a new policy and industrial decisionmaking construct.
In Reducing Toxics, leading experts address industry, technology, health, and policy issues and explore the potential for pollution prevention at the industry and facility levels. They consider both the regulatory and institutional settings of toxics reduction initiatives, prescribe strategies for developing a prevention framework, and apply these principles in analyzing industry case studies. Among the topics considered are: the evolution of, and limits to, currenvironmental policy incorporating prevention into production planning and decisionmaking do voluntary programs lead to industry greening or greenwashing? case studies of the chemical, aerosols, radiator repair and electric vehicle industries opportunities for and barriers to pollution prevention Reducing Toxics offers an analytic framework for defining and understanding differapproaches in the toxics area and describes the basis for a new policy and industrial decisionmaking construct.
