Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety: Risks, Regulation, and Management / Edition 2

by Matthew Hull, Diana Bowman

Overview

Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety, Second Edition focuses not only on the impact of nanotechnology and the discipline of nanotoxicity, but also explains each of these disciplines through in the context of management requirements and via risk scenarios — providing an overview of regulation, risk management, and exposure. Contributors thoroughly explain environmental health and safety (EHS) issues, financial implications, foreseeable risks (e.g., exposure, dose, hazards of nanomaterials), occupational hygiene, and consumer protection.Key new chapters have been included covering eco-toxicity, nanomedicine, informatics, and future threats. New case studies have also been added, including a chapter on the impact of nanosilver on the environment, as well as an assessment of how well lessons have been learned from the past, such as in the case of asbestos. The book also makes a business case for the importance of proactive EHS management - essential reading for existing or prospective producers of nanoscale products.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455731886
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	06/16/2014
Series:	Micro and Nano Technologies
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Matthew Hull is Associate Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship with Virginia Tech’s National Center for Earth and Environmental Nanotechnology Infrastructure (NanoEarth). Hull is also president and owner of NanoSafe, Inc., a provider of nanotechnology human and environmental health and safety services he founded in 2007. He received his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering and an MS in Biology from Virginia Tech. He received his BSc In Environmental Science from Ferrum College.

Diana M. Bowman is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, an Associate Professor in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where she serves as the Associate Dean for International Engagement, and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, where she serves as the Associate Director for Students, at Arizona State University. She is also a visiting international scholar in the Faculty of Law at KU Leuven. Bowman’s research has primarily focused on the legal and policy issues associated with emerging technologies and public health law. Bowman earned her BSc (Physiology), a LLB, and a PhD in Law from Monash University. In August 2011, she was admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. What are the warning signs we should be looking for?
3. Are we willing to heed the lessons of the past? Nanomaterials and Australia's asbestos legacy
4. Characterization of Nanomaterials for Nano EHS studies
5. Toxicological Studies with Nanoscale Materials - what we've learned so far
6. Nanomaterials ecotoxicology: a case study with nanosilvers
7. A Case Study of a Nanoscale-Research Facility Safety through Design and Operation
8. A Nanomaterial Registry
9. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Shaping the Nanotechnologies Landscape through Regulatory Choice
10. A Nanotechnology Legal Framework
11. Nanotechnology Risk Management: An Insurance Industry Perspective
12. Commercialization of Cellulose Nanocrystal (NCCTM) Production: A business case focusing on the importance of proactive EHS management
13. Nanomaterials and Health - Implications for Medicines, Energy, and Food
14. Nanoinformatics: data driven materials design for health and environmental needs
15. Nano EHS threats of the future
16. Nanotechnology: A Sustainable Industrial Revolution?

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Systematic and comprehensive coverage of Nano-EHS: risk assessment and management, international regulations, environmental impacts and human toxicology