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Aerosols: The environmental harmful effect
Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, 2006Aerosols as end products of ambient indoor and outdoor pollution have some potential harmful effect. Children are especially at risk due to their developing organ systems. This is mainly true for the lungs, but may also be true for other organ systems, such as the immune system.
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2013
A systematic and critical discussion of the nature of environmental harm from an eco-justice perspective, challenging conventional criminological definitions of environmental harm. It features examples and illustrations from many national contexts.
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A systematic and critical discussion of the nature of environmental harm from an eco-justice perspective, challenging conventional criminological definitions of environmental harm. It features examples and illustrations from many national contexts.
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Rights, Reasonableness, and Environmental Harms
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2018Resnik and colleagues argue that (1) influential theories of justice like utilitarianism and libertarianism fail to provide specific guidance on issues pertaining to the distribution of environment...
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Environmental Pollution & the Threshold of Harm
The Hastings Center Report, 1984hat is a public interest? What kinds of harms are public harms? There are in general two closely connected conceptions. According to the one, a "public interest" is a collection of specific interests of the same kind possessed by a large and indefinite number of private individuals. The interests in the collection do not necessarily belong to everyone,
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Smart Mixes for Transboundary Environmental Harm
2019This work offers a multidisciplinary approach to legal and policy instruments used to prevent and remedy global environmental challenges. It provides a theoretical overview of a variety of instruments, making distinctions between levels of governance (treaties, domestic law), types of instruments (market-based instruments, regulation, and liability ...
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Globalisation and environmental harm
2013Global environmental harm is not new. For many centuries humans have done things to the environment that have fundamentally transformed local landscapes and regional biodiversities. From bringing plants and animals from the ‘homeland’ to new parts of the world, to polluting rivers and seas with industrial outfall, to fire burning in particular ...
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In harm's way: children's environmental health
Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 20022002 has been a landmark year for children's environmental health, with several major international conferences dedicated to the issue and the publication of numerous reports and studies. In this article we review how and why children's health has emerged as a key environmental policy issue and what the analytical sciences can contribute.
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"Farms, Their Environmental Harms, and Environmental Law"
2000Farms are one of the last uncharted frontiers of environmental regulation in the United States. Despite the substantial environmental harms they cause-habitat loss and degradation, soil erosion and sedimentation, water resources depletion, soil and water salinization, agrochemical releases, animal wastes, nonpoint source water pollution, and air ...
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International responsibility and liability for environmental harm
2015This chapter reviews the law of international responsibility and liability for environmental harm. It notes that there is broad agreement on the principle that states have a responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause environmental damage outside their territory. However, few specific legal rules have been
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