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Lewis, H. W.

 
9780393028836: Technological Risk
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ISBN 10: 0393028836 ISBN 13: 9780393028836
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 1990

Sinopsis

Risks seem to abound in our everyday lives, especially the risks flowing from the explosion of our modern technology, with its pesticides, pollution, nuclear power, microwave radiation and chemical trace elements in food of all kinds. Two questions face all of us: how real are these risks and, if real, how do we manage our lives in order to avoid personal damage from them? This book examines these questions, delving into the nature and true seriousness of risk (as opposed to how bad the risk seems to be), into how we measure risk and how we regulate it. Lewis includes the latest scientific information on carcinogens and the greenhouse effect as well as detailed discussion of road safety, the risk of air travel, nuclear power and acid rain.

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Acerca del autor

H. W. Lewis is a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has chaired numerous government risk-assessment committees on defense, nuclear power, and other matters.

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Editorial
WW Norton & Co
Año de publicación
1990
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0393028836
ISBN 13 
9780393028836
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
368
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780393308297: Technological Risk: What Are the Real Dangers, If Any, of Toxic Chemicals, the Greenhouse Effect, Microwave Radiation, Nuclear Power, Air

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0393308294 ISBN 13:  9780393308297
Editorial: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992
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