Uncertain Hazards: Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof

by Sylvia Noble Tesh

Book Overview

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 all-too-common problem of scientific uncertainty about links between pollution and public health, Sylvia Noble Tesh shows that much of the problem can be traced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801435331
• ISBN13: 9780801435331
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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