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- catalog abstract ""Ordinary citizens frequently organize around environmental issues on which little scientific evidence exists to back activists' claims. Should we then dismiss such claims as spurious? Or should we side with citizens against the polluters?" "Uncertain Hazards takes neither path. In exploring the problem of scientific uncertainty about links between pollution and public health, Sylvia Noble Tesh shows that much of the problem can be traced to the newness of the environmental movement. The inability of scientists to find data corroborating citizens' claims stems partly from the "pre-environmentalist" assumptions still influencing the environmental health sciences, Tesh says. On the other hand, the conviction of activists that industrial pollutants threaten their health results from the environmental movement's success in promoting new ideas about nature." "Tesh points to ways that environmentalist ideas have begun to affect science, thus making more likely the discovery of links between exposure to industrial pollutants and a community's health problems."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11991927.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Ordinary citizens frequently organize around environmental issues on which little scientific evidence exists to back activists' claims. Should we then dismiss such claims as spurious? Or should we side with citizens against the polluters?"".
- catalog description ""Tesh points to ways that environmentalist ideas have begun to affect science, thus making more likely the discovery of links between exposure to industrial pollutants and a community's health problems."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Uncertain Hazards takes neither path. In exploring the problem of scientific uncertainty about links between pollution and public health, Sylvia Noble Tesh shows that much of the problem can be traced to the newness of the environmental movement. The inability of scientists to find data corroborating citizens' claims stems partly from the "pre-environmentalist" assumptions still influencing the environmental health sciences, Tesh says. On the other hand, the conviction of activists that industrial pollutants threaten their health results from the environmental movement's success in promoting new ideas about nature."".
- catalog description "Acknowledgements. -- Overview. -- Protest against pollution. -- Environmental health research. -- New ideas about nature. -- Environmentalist science. -- Understanding risk. -- Experiential Knowledge. -- Social movements and social change.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 168 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Uncertain hazards.".
- catalog identifier "0801435331 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0801485401 (paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Uncertain hazards.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog relation "Uncertain hazards.".
- catalog subject "363.7 21".
- catalog subject "Environmentalism Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "GE195 .T43 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgements. -- Overview. -- Protest against pollution. -- Environmental health research. -- New ideas about nature. -- Environmentalist science. -- Understanding risk. -- Experiential Knowledge. -- Social movements and social change.".
- catalog title "Uncertain hazards : environmental activists and scientific proof / Sylvia Noble Tesh.".
- catalog type "text".