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Part 3. Managing Technological Hazards
Pages 165-166

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... Tschinkel illustrates the efforts of Florida's Department of Environmental Regulation to clean up hazardous waste sites that, because of a particularly high water table, threaten the state's groundwater. These efforts explicitly balance scientific evidence of nsk, cost-effectiveness of alternative cleanup methods, and complex legal and practical problems to achieve health and environmental goals.
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... Kates discusses the barriers imposed by the limits of our scientific knowledge, the shortcomings of the institutions responsible for regulating hazards and compensating victims, and the difficulties of providing equity when managing technologies that present varying risks and benefits for different segments of society. He describes the searches for technological and behavioral fixes that can help overcome these barriers and warns that future changes in the use of technology will present new hazards as well as new opportunities for hazard reduction.
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