Setting environmental standards : twenty-first report / Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
Date:
1998
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Setting environmental standards : twenty-first report / Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS Chapter 1 SIGNIFICANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS Changing nature of environmental concerns Place of standards in environmental policies Key changes in the policy process Structure of this report Chapter 2 SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING Case study: new and existing chemical substances Assessing toxicity Human health effects Determining dose-effect relationships for human health effects Effects on the natural environment Determining dose-effect relationships for the natural environment Environmental pathways and exposures Assimilative capacity of the environment Output from scientific assessment Presentation of scientific assessments Implications for scientific research Chapter 3 TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS Importance of technology for environmental standards Approaches to analysing technological options Best available techniques not entailing excessive cost Best practicable environmental option Taking account of the life cycle Emphasising environmental impact in engineering design Cleaner production and clean technology Encouraging cleaner technology through regulation Output from assessment of technological options 1.8 1.14 22 HZ pes) 2.14 Dpie, ZL 2.38 2.45 Papa) 27. 2.65 28/5 2.83 oe S12 3.19 peel epeop 3.34 3.40 3.46 Page COM Soa RS 11 15 16 om 25) 24 2D 2) Yay) 31 35 36 ay! ayy, 40 43 “bg 46 47