Research Catalog

Title

Health implications of new energy technologies / edited by William N. Rom, Victor E. Archer.

Author

Park City Environmental Health Conference (1979)

Publication

Ann Arbor, Michigan : Ann Arbor Science Publishers, 1980.

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Additional Authors

• Rom, William N.
• Archer, Victor E.
• Society for Occupational and Environmental Health, sponsoring body.

Description

xxi, 785 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

This book examines the health effects of major energy sources like, coal, oil shade, geothermal, and solar.

Subject

• Energy development > Health aspects > Congresses
• Energy development > Environmental aspects > Congresses
• Environmentally induced diseases > Congresses
• Environmental health
• Technology
• Environmental Health
• Fossil Fuels > adverse effects
• Technology
• Sources d'énergie
• Santé
• Environmental health
• Energy development > Environmental aspects
• Energy development > Health aspects
• Environmentally induced diseases

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Sponsored by the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Credits (note)

• Sponsored by the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health.

Contents

A model of energy development: the nuclear industry? -- Exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation -- Coal mining: health and environmental effects -- The transition period to long-term self-sufficiency -- Coal combustion -- Oil shale development and potential health effects -- Geothermal energy development -- The future: solar energy development -- Health hazards of energy transmission and consumption -- Energy research and development.

ISBN

• 0250403617
• 9780250403615

LCCN

80068824

OCLC

• ocm07278129
• 7278129
• SCSB-42027

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library