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Acid Deposition: Environmental, Economic, and Policy Issues, Donald D. Adams and Walter P. Page (eds.), (New York: Plenum Press, 1985), 521 pp.

Acid Deposition: Environmental, Economic, and Policy Issues is a comprehensive, if not exhaustive, examination of acid deposition and its effects on endangered species and habitat preservation, and water resources. This work constitutes an expanded version of the proceedings of the Conference on Acid Deposition: Environmental and Economic Impact, held in Plattsburgh, New York in 1983.

Pesticides in World Agriculture: The Politics of International Regulation, Robert Boardman, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), 213pp.

Pesticides in World Agriculture: The Politics of International Regulation is an examination of the problem of pesticide use in agriculture and the difficulties of achieving international regulation of same.

Acceptable Risk?: Making Decisions in a Toxic Environment, Lee Clarke, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), 220 pp.

Acceptable Risk?: Making Decisions in a Toxic Environment is an examination of: whether it is possible to determine what constitutes acceptable risk, how to determine the participants in medical surveillance programs, and how to make decisions through the toxic clean-up process.

Irrigation-induced Water Quality Problems: What can be Learned from the San Joaquin Valley Experience, Committee on Irrigation-induced Water Quality Problems, Water Science and Technology Board and Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources National Research Council, (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1989), 147pp.

Irrigation-induced Water Quality Problems: What can be Learned from the San Joaquin Valley Experience is an examination of the problem of irrigation-induced water quality problems using the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge and its build-up of toxic levels of selenium as an example. This work examines the scientific and institutional dimensions of the problem and offers methods for resolution.

Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy of Science and the Law, Carl F. Cranor, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 241 pp.

Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy of Science and the Law is an examination of the need for, and methods of, assessment of toxic substances. The author addresses the legal, legislative, administrative, and tort issues surrounding toxic substances.

Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma, Mary R. English, (New York: Quorum Books, 1992), 267pp.

Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma is an examination of the components of authority, trust, risk, justice and legitimacy in the siting of low- level radioactive waste facilities. It offers a brief history of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (LLWPA) and an in-depth examination of the act itself.

Toxic Debts and the Superfund Dilemma, Harold C. Barnett, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 334 pp.

Toxic Debts is a political economy of the Superfund, created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980. It argues that Superfund has failed due to conflict over who will pay the"toxic debt, " that is, the cost of cleaning up hazardous waste sites, and conflict between environmental and economic interests.

Acceptable Risk, Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein, Paul Slovis, Stephen L. Derby, Ralph L. Keeney, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981) 185pp.

Acceptable Risk, offers an analysis of the acceptable risk problem. The problem is viewed as a complex one, but essentially of a meta-decision nature.

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