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Found 3 from your keywords: subject="Pollution prevention"
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Mercury Pollution in Minamata
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YOKOYAMA, Hisashi

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It overviews the poisoning which occurred in the 1950s and 1960s among the residents in Minamata who ate seafood contaminated with methylmercury discharged from the chemical factory, Chisso Corporation. It describes the history, symptoms pathogenesis and research on the causal agent, and discusses the responses of Chisso and the national …

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978-981-10-7392-2
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IX, 67
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SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science (BRIEFSENVIRONMENTAL)
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624 YOK m
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Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change
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GOTTLIEB, Robert

A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life. In Environmentalism Unbound , Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it fr…

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9780262274111
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1 online resource (408 pages).
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Towards Green Lubrication in Machining
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HSIEN, Willey Liew Yun

The book gives an overview of environmental friendly gaseous and vapour, refrigerated compressed gas, solid lubricant, mist lubrication, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) and vegetable oils that can be used as lubricants and additives in industrial machining applications. This book introduces vegetable oils as viable and good alternative resources because of their environmental friendly, non-t…

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978-981-287-266-1
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