Performing protest, articulating difference: Environmentalists, Aborigines and the Kuranda Skyrail dispute

Does gestational age misclassification explain the difference in birthweights for Australian aborigines and whites?

BACKGROUND After 34 weeks gestation, summary measures of location for birthweight (e.g means and centiles) increase more slowly for Australian Aborigines than for whites. A similar pattern has been observed for blacks in the US. This study tests whether the reported pattern is due to differential misclassification of gestational age. METHODS Simulation was used to measure the potential effect...

Aborigines , values and the environment

UN Recognizes Environmentalists

Authors, editors and reviewers alike use the biomedical literature to identify appropriate journals in which to publish, potential reviewers for papers or grants, and collaborators (or competitors) with similar interests. Traditionally, this process has either relied upon personal expertise and knowledge or upon a somewhat unsystematic and laborious process of manually searching through the lit...

Complex constituencies: intense environmentalists and representation

Risk assessment: the perspective and experience of U.S. environmentalists.

Risk assessment is a set of decision rules widely used in the United States for identifying and quantifying the risks of chemicals and other events for adverse effects to human health, usually cancer. Scientific criticism has been directed toward the default assumptions and test methods used in risk assessment by regulatory agencies. This paper evaluates the contribution of risk assessment as a...