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Publisher Summary The goal of environmental protection is to improve the condition of the environment to reduce risks to human health and to protect and enhance the quality of natural ecosystems. This has always been clear, but the more recently understood threat of toxic chemicals has greatly increased the difficulty of carrying out that assignment. The job of reducing the risks of toxic chemicals is simply larger and more complex than expected. Air and water that seemed pure ten years ago now reveal to be contaminated, even if only to a very small degree. Problems once regarded as solved turns out to be not solved. Each new scientific revelation seems only to lengthen the agenda of possible actions. The number of issue to address is now so large that the first order of business is simply to separate the problems from the nonproblems. Controlling toxic chemicals is ultimately a management problem. There is a need of a new strategy that allows to act constructively, despite the uncertainty that is present. |
