Frames in the Toxicity Controversy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   • Arnold Tukker

   Pages 1-14

3. The role of science in controversies

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   Pages 15-61

4. The toolbox for evaluations of environmental performance

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   Pages 63-99

5. Chlorine in the Netherlands: an analysis of environmental bottlenecks and uncertainties

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   Pages 101-134

6. PVC in Sweden: an analysis of environmental bottlenecks

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   Pages 135-159

7. The Dutch chlorine debate

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   Pages 161-229

8. The Swedish PVC-debate

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   Pages 231-289

9. Conclusions

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   Pages 291-322

10. Reflections and recommendations

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    Pages 323-355

11. Back Matter

    Pages 357-382

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Preface When you write a book like this after ten years' working as an environmental specialist, you end up with something that reflects your career. Of course, when I started working at the Ministry of the Environment in the Netherlands, I could not foresee that I would now be at TNO, nor that I would have performed research into chlorine, PVC, waste, etc. , that would come to form the basis for this book. But step by step, with some coincidence and with the support of several people - who were probably unaware of the crucial role that, with hindsight, they played - I arrived at a position where I could start to consider this enterprise. At this point I shall try something dangerous - thanking a few of those people who gave that support. At the same time, it is obvious that I cannot mention them all. I hope that those whom I do not mention will forgive me. A first, crucial moment in this sequence of events came quite soon after I joined TNO in 1990. Just a few weeks later, all the senior staff in my section decided to leave in order to set up their own company. I decided to stay at TNO. As a consequence, I had to manage it on my own.

• Evaluation
• Policy
• environment
• environmental science
• toxicity
• ecotoxicology
• industrial pollution prevention

• TNO Institute of Strategy, Technology and Policy (TNO-STB), Delft, The Netherlands

  Arnold Tukker

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