Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides

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During this century, hundreds of billions of pounds of pesticides have been released to the global environment. How are we exposed to them? What can we do to protect ourselves? In this extraordinary analysis, John Wargo, one of the nation's leading experts in pesticide policy, traces the history of pesticide law and science, with a focus on the special hazards faced by children. Wargo presents a compelling case that children are more heavily exposed to some pesticides than adults and are especially vulnerable to some adverse effects. How should the fractured body of environmental law be repaired to manage the distribution of risk? This is the central question Wargo addresses as he suggests fundamental reforms of science and law necessary to understand and contain the health risks faced by children.
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Wargo (Yale U. School of Forestry and Environmental Studies) provides a comprehensive assessment of pesticide regulation, demonstrates that children are substantially more susceptible than adults to the toxic effects of pesticides, and describes the current threat from pesticides around the globe. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Steve Heilig
"[Wargo] has produced a Silent Spring for the 90's." -- San Francisco Chronicle
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780300066869
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication date: 3/1/1998
  • Edition description: Second Edition
  • Pages: 396
  • Product dimensions: 6.42 (w) x 9.57 (h) x 1.13 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Global Experiment 3
2 The Urgency of Malaria 15
3 Resistance: A Race Against Time 43
4 Beyond Control: Pesticide Law Before 1972 67
5 EPA as the Gatekeeper of Risk 86
6 Risk Assessment and Tolerance Setting: The Delaney Paradox 104
7 The Human Ecology of Pesticide Residues 131
8 The Susceptibility of Children 172
9 The Diet of a Child 201
10 Averaging Games: Simplification of Exposure and Risk 219
11 The Complex Mixture Problem 235
12 Fractured Law, Fractured Science: Restating the Pesticide Problem 251
13 Toward Reform 270
Epilogue 289
Abbreviations 301
Notes 303
Index 371
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