Subject(s): Green chemistry
Review: "When the Nobel Prize Committee recognized the importance of green chemistry with its 2005 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, this relatively new science came into its own. Although no concerted agreement has been reached yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there seems to
Contents:Part 1. People, progress, and nature : Is conflict inevitable? Introduction to ecological principles -- Population dynamics -- Population control -- The people-food predicament -- Impacts of growth on ecosystems -- Part 2. Our toxic environment : Does everything cause cancer? Environmental disease -- Toxic substances -- Pests and
Contents:Science and engineering ethics: overview / Raymond E. Spier -- The processes of science / Stephanie J. Bird -- Ethics and the products of science / Rufus Black -- Engineering ethics / Vivian Weil -- Ethics in conflict / Brad Hooker -- A social contract? / Andrew Reeve -- Biology, engineering and ethics / Raymond E. Spier -- Compu
