Environmental Specimen Banking and Monitoring as Related to Banking - Proceedings of the International Workshop, Saarbruecken, Federal Republic of Germany, 10-15 May, 1982 (Hardcover, 1984 ed.)

There is a great dispar.ity between the ability of the major industrial nations to produce and distribute chemicals and our ability to comprehend the nature and potential severity of unintended consequences for man, his life support systems and the environment generally. Furthermore, the gap between our ability to produce and distribute myriad chemicals and our ability to identify, understand or predict unfavorable environmental impacts may widen. As environmental scientists we are conscious of the interrelatedness, not only of environmental systems, but of nations as well. Materials are continually moved across boundaries by human as well as natural agencies. The extent, rate and nature of transfer for most pollutants is largely unknown. We can only guess which of the numerous chemicals produced are candidates for concern. More important still is our practical ignorance of the mechanisms of chronic effects upon natural systems and of the concentrations, combinations and circumstances that may lead to irreversibilities or to serious consequences for man. We know very little also regarding the potential for or the kinds of indirect effects that might occur. With respect to the environmentltself, we know little of its assimilative capacity with regard to widely dispersed pollutants and their transformation products. But what we do know is disquieting, and a much-improved system for the evaluation and management of toxic and hazardous chemicals is needed.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1983
First published:	December 1983
Editors:	R.A. Lewis • N. Stain • Carolyn W. Lewis
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	358
Edition:	1984 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-89838-621-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pharmacology > Medical toxicology Promotions
LSN:	0-89838-621-7
Barcode:	9780898386219

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