HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

The Greening of Industry

A Risk Management Approach

Jennifer Kassalow Hartwell

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$47.50 • £38.95 • €43.00

ISBN 9780674363274

Publication Date: 03/17/1997

Short

320 pages

23 line illustrations, 14 tables

Harvard School of Public Health

World

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Environmentalists often perceive the risk management approach to environmental and public health policy as a tool to block regulation of industrial pollution. In contrast, this book presents six case studies which provide examples of how federal risk-based regulation has encouraged industry’s investment in pollution control. The authors trace the impact of risk management on the regulation of lead in gasoline, ozone-depleting chemicals, and emissions from the drycleaning, pulp and paper, coke, and municipal waste combustor industries.

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