Publications
Posted on Mar 27, 2008
The references below were developed by AHT member groups and allies. This list is not exhaustive but is intended to provide useful background information to our work.
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Children’s Health
- Time to Act: Preventing Harm to Our Children Clean Water ActionMay 12, 2001
- Toxic Chemicals and Childhood Cancer: A Review of the EvidenceTami Gouveia-Vigeant, MPH, MSW and Joel Tickner, ScD Lowell Center for Sustainable Production May 2003
- Costs of Preventable Childhood Illness: The Price we Pay for PollutionRachel Massey & Frank Ackerman Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts UniversitySeptember 2003
- Toolkit for reducing diesel emissions at schools New England Asthma Regional Council (2005)
- Baby Bottles Leach Toxic Chemical, according to New U.S. and Canadian Study Clean Water Action, Feb 7 2008
- Cancer-causing Chemical Found in Children’s Bath Products Clean Water Action, Feb 8 2007
Chemicals and Health
- Risks to Asthma Posed by Indoor Healthcare Environments Health Care Without Harm (2006)
- Body Burden:The Pollution in Newborns Environmental Working Group (2005)
- Poisoning Ourselves: Residential Pesticide Use in Massachusetts Environmental League of Massachusetts (2005)
- Sick of Dust: Chemicals in Common Products - a Needless Health Risk in our Homes Clean Production Action (2005)
- Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer: A Review of Recent Scientific Evidence Lowell Center for Sustainable Production (2005)
- Mothers’Milk: Record Levels of Toxic Fire Retardants Found in American Mothers’Breast Milk Environmental Working Group (2003)
- New Report Calls For Action On Toxic Cleaning Products Clean Water Action, July 24 2007
- New Product Tests Find Lead In Lipstick; Levels up to six times FDA limit for lead in candy Clean Water Action, October 11 2007
- Toxic Chemicals From Everyday Products Found In Massachusetts Residents Clean Water Action, November 8 2007
International Chemicals Policy
- European Chemicals Management InitiativesJoel A. Tickner, ScD Lowell Center for Sustainable Production September, 2002
- Safer Chemicals Within Reach: Using the Substitution Principle to drive Green Chemistry A report prepared by Clean Production Action for Greenpeace UK that shows how to substitute safer materials for hazardous chemicals and gives case studies of industries who are moving to safer chemical practices.
Precautionary Principle
- Wingspread Statement: A Common Sense Way to Protect Public Health and the Environment Science and Environmental Health Network January 25, 1998
- Late Lessons from Early Warnings: The Precautionary Principle 1896 - 2000, A report by the European Environment Agency
- Precaution: Who Decides? Why democratic methods of decision-making are critical to implementing the Precautionary Principle Massachusetts Precautionary Principle Project August 2000
- Environmental Health and the Precautionary Principle Devra Davis, Ph.D. Edited Keynote Talk, Massachusetts Precautionary Principle Project, Kickoff Meeting May 15, 1999
- The Precautionary Principle in Environmental Science Joel Tickner, David Kriebel et al. Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
- Putting Precaution into Practice: Implementing the Precautionary Principle Joel Tickner, Sc.D. Excerpted from “A Map Toward Precautionary Decision-Making” in Raffensperger & Tickner, eds., Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle. 1999, Washington, D.C., Island Press
- Racing Towards the Starting Line: The Radical Nature of PrecautionMary H. O’Brien, Ph.D. Presented at “At the Heart of Primary Prevention: Breast Cancer and the Precautionary Principle.”October 23, 1999, Boston, Massachusetts
- Prospering with Precaution: Employment, Economics, and the Precautionary PrincipleFrank Ackerman and Rachel Massey Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University
- More resources: Summit on the Precautionary Principle September 2001
Environmental Justice
- Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Daniel R. Faber, Northeastern University January 9, 2001
- Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards 2005: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Daniel R. Faber, Northeastern University October 12, 2005
- Pollution is Personal Massachusetts Precautionary Principle Project, Fall 1999
- Risk Assessment and Risk Management Massachusetts Precautionary Principle Project, Fall 1999
- Facing Our Toxic Ignorance Massachusetts Precautionary Principle Project, Fall 2000
- Pricing the Priceless: Cost Benefit Analysis of Environmental ProtectionLisa Heinzerling, Frank Ackerman Georgetown University, February 2002
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