Nanotechnology health and environmental risks /

Shatkin, Jo Anne.

Nanotechnology health and environmental risks / [electronic resource] : Jo Anne Shatkin - 1st ed - Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, c2008 - xix, 167 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. - Perspectives in nanotechnology .

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : assessing nanotechnology health and environmental risks -- Defining risk assessment and how it is used for environmental protection, and its potential role for managing nanotechnology risks -- Sustainable nanotechnology development using risk assessment and applying life cycle thinking -- The state of the science : human health, toxicology, and nanotechnological risk / Brenda E. Barry -- The state of the science : environmental risks -- NANO LCRA : an adaptive screening- level life cycle risk assessment framework for nanotechnology -- Alternative approaches for life cycle risk assessment for nanotechnology and comprehensive environmental assessment / Jo Anne Shatkin and J. Michael Davis -- Current and proposed approaches for managing risks in occupational environments / Brenda E. Barry -- Ongoing international efforts to address risk issues for nanotechnology


Electronic reproduction.
[Palo Alto, Calif.] :
ebrary,
2008.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Also available in print

9781420053630 1420053639


Nanotechnology--Risk assessment
Nanotechnology--Health aspects
Nanotechnology--Environmental aspects
Nanotechnology
Risk Assessment
Environmental Pollutants--toxicity
Occupational Exposure--adverse effects

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