Hazardous Waste Management Reducing The Risk.

Hazardous Waste Management: Reducing the Riskis the first book to study and rate toxic waste disposal sites and to provide step-by-step guidelines for evaluation, decision, and action. The innovative and practical ranking system shows how to rate facilities on the basis of site, management, and tech...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Goldman, Benjamin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Island Press, 2013
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • About Island Press
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • About CEP
  • Abbreviations
  • CEP FINDINGS
  • ONE. Busting the Shell Game: Where CEP Looked and What CEP Found
  • TWO. Recommendations: A Starting Point for Individual Perspectives
  • PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
  • THREE. Setting the Stage: Some Technical and Legal Backgound
  • FOUR. A New Industry: Commercial Hazardous Waste Management
  • FIVE. Hazardous Waste Management: Strategies and Technologies
  • SIX. How to Choose: Tools for Evaluating Facilities
  • CASE STUDIES
  • 7. The Big Eight: Corporate Comparisons
  • 8. Picking a Winner: CEP Comparative Facility Evaluation Method
  • 9. Report Cards: Ten Hazardous Waste Management Facilities
  • 10. Information Management: Ranking the Regulators
  • Appendix A: Evaluating a Hazardous Waste Facility
  • Appendix B: Federal Hazardous Waste Databases
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Index
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