Uncertain Hazards : : Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof / / Sylvia Noble Tesh.
Ordinary citizens frequently organize around environmental issues on which little scientific evidence exists to back activists' claims. Should we then dismiss such claims as spurious? Or should we side with citizens against the polluters?Uncertain Hazards takes neither path. In exploring the al...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Overview
- Chapter One. Protest against Pollution
- Chapter Two. Environmental Health Research
- Chapter Three. New Ideas about Nature
- Chapter Four. Environmentalist Science
- Chapter Five. Understanding Risk
- Chapter Six. Experiential Knowledge
- Chapter Seven. Social Movements and Social Change
- Notes
- Index