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Books by Paul Pechan






Safe or Not Safe(2011st Edition)
Deciding What Risks to Accept in Our Environment and Food
by Paul Pechan, Ortwin Renn, Allan Watt, Ingemar Pongratz
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2014 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4899-9301-4, ISBN: 1-4899-9301-0

"Based on an EU workshop at the end of 2005, the book discusses risk and our food supply. The introductory chapter will discuss all aspects of risk and how it applies to food, from risk classification to risk management. Following a discussion of risk, the authors will present three different case studies that will emphasize the following issues:• What do we want as individuals, as a society• What is the political context of the risk dis ..."






Safe or Not Safe
Deciding What Risks to Accept in Our Environment and Food
by Paul Pechan, Ortwin Renn, Ingemar Pongratz, Allan Watt
Hardcover, 150 Pages, Published 2011 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4419-7867-7, ISBN: 1-4419-7867-4

"Based on an EU workshop at the end of 2005, the book discusses risk and our food supply. The introductory chapter will discuss all aspects of risk and how it applies to food, from risk classification to risk management. Following a discussion of risk, the authors will present three different case studies that will emphasize the following issues:• What do we want as individuals, as a society• What is the political context of the risk dis ..."






Living with Water
Targeting Quality in a Dynamic World
by Paul Pechan
Hardcover, 202 Pages, Published 2012 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4614-3751-2, ISBN: 1-4614-3751-2

"The factors affecting water quality are many: The increasing buying power and health concerns of the world population contribute to the creation of new products whose production and disposal lead to the release of chemicals harmful to the environment;  the ever-growing world population requires a steady food supply, which increases the pressure to use even more chemicals to control various crop pests; and due ..."






Living with Water(2013rd Edition)
Targeting Quality in a Dynamic World
by Paul Pechan
Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 2015 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4899-8880-5, ISBN: 1-4899-8880-7

"The factors affecting water quality are many: The increasing buying power and health concerns of the world population contribute to the creation of new products whose production and disposal lead to the release of chemicals harmful to the environment;  the ever-growing world population requires a steady food supply, which increases the pressure to use even more chemicals to control various crop pests; and due to climate change, head wat ..."






Living with Water
Targeting Quality in a Dynamic World
by Paul Pechan
202 Pages, Published 2012 by Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN-13: 978-1-4614-3752-9, ISBN: 1-4614-3752-0

"Airoldi L. (2003) The effects of sedimentation on rocky assemblages. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 41:161–236. Airoldi L., Cinelli F. (1997) Effects of sedimentation on subtidal macroalgal assemblages: an experimental study from a mediterrean rocky shore. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 215:269–288. Airoldi L., Virgilio M. (1998) Responses of turf-forming algae to spatial variations in the dep ..."






Safe Or Not Safe
Deciding What Risks to Accept In Our Environment and Food
by Paul Pechan, Ortwin Renn, Allan Watt, Ingemar Pongratz
145 Pages, Published 2011 by Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN-13: 978-1-4419-7868-4, ISBN: 1-4419-7868-2

"Chapter. 3. Chemical. Contaminants. in. Food. Ingemar Pongratz, Katarina Pettersson, and Malin Hedengran Faulds. 1. Why. Are. We. Writing. About. This. Book. In Western societies today, the issue of food consumption has evolved from a relatively short chain of trading between producer and consumer to a complex chain of different parties. Today, food consumption includes large-scale production, time-efficient handling, transport, an ..."






Genes on the Menu
Facts for Knowledge-Based Decisions
by Paul Pechan
Published 2005
ISBN-13: 978-1-280-30607-5, ISBN: 1-280-30607-6






Genes on the Menu
Facts for Knowledge-Based Decisions
by Paul Pechan, Gert De Vries
Hardcover, 217 Pages, Published 2005 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-20178-6, ISBN: 3-540-20178-5

"2.2 Insect Resistance in Crop Plants Gert E. de Vries The development of insect- resistant crops seems an ideal contribution to sustainable agriculture and could have benefits such as savings in resources devoted to scouting for pest insects, reduced applications of broad-spectrum insecticides, increased yields and protection against certain fungal plant pathogens. Over thirty different crops have been genetically modified to produc ..."






Genes on the Menu
by Paul Pechan
Paperback, Published 2008 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-80034-7, ISBN: 3-540-80034-4






Safe or Not Safe
ISBN-13: 978-1-4419-7869-1, ISBN: 1-4419-7869-0

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