Calculating Risks?: The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy

by W Kip Viscusi, James T. Hamilton, W. Kip Viscusi

Hazardous wastes often head the public's list of environmental concerns. Exaggerated estimates of cancer epidemics arising from waste sites generate a sense of alarm, but little is known about the real extent of the health threats. In this book James T. Hamilton and W. Kip Viscusi present the first comprehensive analysis of the magnitude of hazardous waste risks and of the efficacy of the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund program. By matching...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262082780
• ISBN13: 9780262082785
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher