Paradigms Lost
Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Elsevier Science & Technology
Published:24th Nov '05
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
One source guide to modern environmental disasters and how they could have been prevented.
Combines the historical case perspective with credible scientific explanations of key environmental disasters and problems. This book sorts through natural disasters and human mistakes from Love Canal, New York to Bhopal, India to provide lessons that can be applied by scientists, engineers and public safety officials.Engineers and scientists have made great progress in advancing the understanding of the principles underlying environmental quality and public health. However, all too often, society and the scientific community do not realize the connections between environmental occurrences. In their haste to remedy a situation, they overlook lessons that could be learned to prevent future disasters. Paying attention to the past instructs us about the future. Paradigms Lost combines the historical case perspective with credible and sound scientific explanations of key environmental disasters and problems. The author sorts through natural disasters and human mistakes from Love Canal, New York to Bhopal, India to provide larger lessons that can be applied by scientists, engineers and public safety officials. The analysis of these events includes viable alternatives for future generations.
“Vallero’s engaging, accessible prose mostly avoids the stiffness that often pervades books of this type, making it easier to digest the technical context and analysis. --Civil Engineering, March 2006
ISBN: 9780750678889
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 910g
600 pages