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Environmental hazards
Obstetric problems This is the most widely recognised environmental hazard of anaesthesia but individual opinions, as well as governmental and professional reactions, differ widely. Some feel that not enough is being done about the problem while others maintain either that there is no problem and that much research and finance has been misdirected, or that scavenging devices introduce an unacce...
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Losses due to natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, hurricanes) and technological hazards (e.g., nuclear waste facilities, chemical spills) are both on the rise. One response to hazard-related losses is migration, with this paper offering a review of research examining the association between migration and environmental hazards. Using examples from both developed and developing regional contexts,...
متن کاملSocial Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards
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This study contributes to our understanding of the association between internal migration patterns and environmentally hazardous facilities, with a focus upon racespecific outmigration at the county-level, nationwide. Among research suggesting inequalities with regard to the social distribution of environmental risk, selective migration is often implied to be a key dynamic leading to differenti...
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Environmental effects and hazards in combustion ....................................................................................... 1 Fire safety. Protection and remediation .................................................................................................... 2 Fire safety education .................................................................................................
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.161.3848.1365