Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety: Risks, Regulation, and Management / Edition 3

by Matthew Hull, Diana Bowman

Overview

Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety tackles - in depth and in breadth - the complex and evolving issues pertaining to nanotechnology's environmental health and safety (EHS). The chapters are authored by leaders in their respective fields, providing thorough analysis of their research areas. The diverse spectrum of topics include nanotechnology EHS issues, financial implications, foreseeable risks including exposure, dosage and hazards, and the implications of occupational hygiene precautions and consumer protections.

The book includes real-world case studies, wherever practical, to illustrate specific issues and scenarios encountered by stakeholders positioned on the front-lines of nanotechnology-enabled industries. These case studies will appeal to, and resonate with, laboratory scientists, business leaders, regulators, service providers, and postgraduate researchers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128135884
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/17/2018
Series:	Micro and Nano Technologies
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	580
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (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