ECS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Risk Assessment, Ozone Depletion, Methylmercury
12 Sep 2016
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The past 100 years: warming trends aren"t uniform across the planet, increase in. Nox is the main ingredient in fertilizers. Hfcs: humans have altered ecosystem and influenced climate change, global extinction. What is a hazard: the potential to cause harm, a property or situation that in particular circumstances could lead to harm. Risk: chance of disaster, risk assessment. Disease of cattle which was first identified in 1986- causes animals to become uncoordinated, nervous and eventually die. Yes- because the spatial logic is always the same dumping in some places while others are clean- poor places are going to be swept off while privileged places are protected. No- because ej refers to certain political, social, and economic contexts calls for justice based in local perceptions of justice. Providing a basis for site specific decision. Reasonable practical exposure: minamata bay, japan- high concentrations of mercury in fish- people were dying.
