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Author Ackerman, Frank.

Title Poisoned for pennies : the economics of toxics and precaution / by Frank Ackerman.

Publication Info. Washington : Island Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 317 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-309) and index.
Contents Pricing the priceless -- Was environmental protection ever a good idea? -- The unbearable lightness of regulatory costs -- Precaution, uncertainty, and dioxin -- The economics of atrazine -- Ignoring the benefits of pesticides regulation -- Mad cows and computer models -- Costs of preventable childhood illness -- Phasing out a problem plastic -- The costs of REACH -- Impacts of REACH on developing countries -- How should the US respond to REACH? -- Conclusion: economics and precautionary policies.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Environmental policy -- Cost effectiveness.
Environmental policy -- Cost effectiveness.
Environmental health -- Government policy -- Cost effectiveness.
Environmental health -- Government policy.
Cost effectiveness.
Environmental health.
Medical policy -- Cost effectiveness.
Medical policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ackerman, Frank. Poisoned for pennies. Washington : Island Press, ©2008 9781597264006 (DLC) 2007040654 (OCoLC)173748825
ISBN 9781610911016 (electronic book)
1610911016 (electronic book)
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