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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 352 pages, height x width x depth: 229x152x23 mm, weight: 482 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 20-Jun-2003
  • Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0813532876
  • ISBN-13: 9780813532875
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 352 pages, height x width x depth: 229x152x23 mm, weight: 482 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 20-Jun-2003
  • Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0813532876
  • ISBN-13: 9780813532875
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When an environmental news story breaks, the first place to turn for background on the issue is The Reporter's Environmental Handbook, now available in an updated and expanded third edition. Here, journalists can find the fast facts they need to accurately cover complex and controversial environmental stories ranging from indoor and outdoor air quality to sprawl and bioterrorism.

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The Reporter's Environmental Handbook is an excellent quick reference book for reporters and editors under deadline pressure. It contains a short background chapter on every imaginable kind of risk situation. It is a very useful guide for journalists reporting on environmental issues. - Teya Ryan (executive vice president and general manager of CNN, U.S.) [ An] indispensable book for any journalist, student, or informed lay person who needs to understand and communicate environmental risks. - Bernard D. Goldstein (M.D., dean, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health) A valuable tool for print and broadcast journalists reporting on the major environmental hazards of this new century. Every news organization ought to have this book in easy reach for their reporters and editors. - Jerome Aumente (distinguished professor emeritus and founding director, Journalism Resources Ins)

Preface and Acknowledgments vii
GETTING STARTED
How to Use This Handbook
3(2)
Handling an Environmental Emergency: A Case Study in Finding Sources
5(6)
The Language of Risk
11(16)
Tracking Down a Company's Environmental Record
27(5)
Finding an Expert
32(5)
THE LARGER CONTEXT
Journalists' Views of the Environment: Issues and Challenges
37(11)
Who Sets the Environmental Agenda?
48(12)
Thoughts on the Future of Environmental Policy and Regulation
60(5)
BRIEFS
Air Pollution (Indoor)
65(11)
Air Pollution (Outdoor)
76(11)
Animal Waste Management
87(9)
Biodiversity
96(8)
Brownfields
104(6)
Cancer and Other Disease Cluster Claims
110(8)
Chemical Emergencies
118(9)
Chemical Weapons (Disarmament)
127(11)
Children's Health (Asthma)
138(8)
Children's Health (Lead)
146(8)
Cross-Border Environmental Issues (U.S.-Mexico)
154(6)
Dioxin
160(7)
Disposal of Dredged Materials
167(5)
Endocrine Disrupters
172(6)
Environmental Justice and Hazardous Waste
178(11)
Food Irradiation
189(7)
Genetically Modified Crops
196(10)
Global Climate Change
206(13)
Groundwater Pollution
219(9)
Naturally Occurring and Technology-Based Disasters
228(10)
Occupational Health
238(10)
Ozone Depletion
248(9)
Pesticides
257(8)
Pollution Prevention/Source Reduction
265(7)
Population Growth
272(11)
Sprawl and Environmental Health
283(9)
Surface Water Quality
292(7)
Water Supply
299(10)
Acronyms and Abbreviations 309(4)
Glossary 313(14)
About the Authors 327(2)
Index 329


Bernadette M. West is an assistant professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health (UMDNJ-SPH). M. Jane Lewis is an assistant professor at UMDNJ-SPH and a member of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. Michael R. Greenberg is a professor and associate dean of the faculty of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. He recently served on a National Academy of Sciences committee that oversees the destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile. David B. Sachsman is the George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists. RenTe M. Rogers is an environmental consultant specializing in human health risk assessment.