Environmental Law (6th Edition)

Environmental Law (6th Edition)
by Nancy K. Kubasek, Gary S. Silverman
(8)

53 used & new from $25.15

(Visit the Most Gifted in Environmental & Natural Resources Law list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)

Review & Description

  This fundamental introduction to environmental law is designed to introduce those without any legal or special scientific training to the system through which the nation attempts to preserve and protect the different aspects of our environment. Environmental law and policy; air quality control; water quality control; toxic substance control; waste management and hazardous releases; energy; natural resources; and international environmental law. For anyone who is in business or anyone who is simply interested in environmental issues or who has a job where they have to understand environmental law.

 

 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85217 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.33 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Safety Performance in a Lean Environment: A Guide to Building Safety into a Process (Occupational Safety & Health Guide Series)

Safety Performance in a Lean Environment: A Guide to Building Safety into a Process (Occupational Safety & Health Guide Series)
by Paul F. English

Buy new: $89.95 $84.59
26 used & new from $68.00

(Visit the Most Wished For in Environmental & Natural Resources Law list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)

Review & Description

As changing customer demands and shifting world markets continue to put a strain on businesses in all sectors, your business needs every advantage to stay competitive. Many people may think of lean processes as suitable only for the manufacturing floor, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Safety Performance in a Lean Environment: A Guide to Building Safety into a Process demonstrates how lean tools can eliminate waste in your safety program, making it an important piece not only in keeping your organization safe but also in keeping it globally competitive.

Written by safety pro Paul F. English, this book explores tools such as lean manufacturing, DMAIC processes, and Kepner-Trego problem solving and how to use them to increase efficiency and eliminate waste in safety programs. He goes on to discuss Value Based Management, a technique identified as a leading business model for any organization wanting to catch "The Toyota Way". These processes help you build, incorporate, and sustain a safety program and understand how to get and maintain a foothold for the safety program in times of change.

Here’s what you get:

• Real safety solutions for a lean environment
• Methods for setting up standard work for EHS professionals
• How-tos for JSA and Pre-Task Analysis to help develop standardized work
• Tips and tricks that everyone can use to jump start a stalled safety program

There is no book currently on the market that discusses lean manufacturing or Six Sigma processes and links them to the occupational safety or environmental science. Yet these are the areas where the need for lean processes is becoming acute. English demonstrates how to anticipate paradigm shifts in management models and how environmental health and safety fits into the model. He defines what adds value to the safety and manufacturing process as well as to the customer. These changes may include a change in daily, weekly or monthly metrics that can help or harm a safety program. Defining what adds value to the safety and manufacturing process and the customer helps you understand how to build safety into a process, creating a strong safety program.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #421600 in Books
• Published on: 2011-11-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 166 pages

The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States

The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States
David Vogel (Author)

Download: $31.60
196 used & new from $26.24

(Visit the Hot New Releases in Environmental & Natural Resources Law list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)

Review & Description

The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently. It finds that between 1960 and 1990, American health, safety, and environmental regulations were more stringent, risk averse, comprehensive, and innovative than those adopted in Europe. But since around 1990, the book shows, global regulatory leadership has shifted to Europe. What explains this striking reversal?

David Vogel takes an in-depth, comparative look at European and American policies toward a range of consumer and environmental risks, including vehicle air pollution, ozone depletion, climate change, beef and milk hormones, genetically modified agriculture, antibiotics in animal feed, pesticides, cosmetic safety, and hazardous substances in electronic products. He traces how concerns over such risks--and pressure on political leaders to do something about them--have risen among the European public but declined among Americans. Vogel explores how policymakers in Europe have grown supportive of more stringent regulations while those in the United States have become sharply polarized along partisan lines. And as European policymakers have grown more willing to regulate risks on precautionary grounds, increasingly skeptical American policymakers have called for higher levels of scientific certainty before imposing additional regulatory controls on business.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #368938 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-04-29
• Released on: 2012-04-29
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

A Civil Action

A Civil Action
Jonathan Harr (Author)
(357)

Download: $11.99
60 used & new from $9.62

(Visit the Best Sellers in Environmental & Natural Resources Law list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)

Review & Description

"The legal thriller of the decade." --Cleveland Plain Dealer

Now a Major Motion Picture!

In this true story of an epic courtroom showdown, two of the nation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest of heroes emerges: a young, flamboyant Porsche-driving lawyer who hopes to win millions of dollars and ends up nearly losing everything, including his sanity. A searing, compelling tale of a legal system gone awry--one in which greed and power fight an unending struggle against justice--A Civil Action is also the story of how one determined man can ultimately make a difference. With an unstoppable narrative power, it is an unforgettable reading experience.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33490 in eBooks
• Published on: 2011-08-10
• Released on: 2011-08-10
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1