What Are the Warning Signs That We Should Be Looking For?

Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety: Risks, Regulation, and Management: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 9-24

  Hansen, Steffen Foss ^a   Maynard, Andrew ^b,c   Baun, Anders ^a   Tickner, Joel A ^d   Bowman, Diana M ^b,e  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Carbon nanotubes; EHS; European Environment Agency; MWCNTs

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ECONOMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; YARN;

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCIES; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; MWCNTS; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES; WARNING SIGNS;

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84925302237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4557-3188-6.00002-5     Document Type: Chapter

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