Overview
- The impact of the environmental spread of organophosphates and glyphosate on plant, animal, ecological and human health
- Why hazard identification is as important as risk assessment to consider health effects on underserved communities
- Impacts of the IARC classifications: on the science and regulatory communities, the lay press and the legal sector
Part of the book series: AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series (AESS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview of Parathion, Malathion, Diazinon, Tetrachlorvinphos and Glyphosate
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Review Process
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Implications of and Responses to IARC’s Classification of Parathion, Malathion, Diazinon, Tetrachlorvinphos and Glyphosate
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Environmental Justice Issues: Domestically and Globally
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About this book
This book focuses on a monograph published in 2017 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), discussing its carcinogen hazard classification of four pesticides: parathion, malathion, diazinon, and tetrachlorvinphos as well as the herbicide glyphosate.
The monograph provided a detailed discussion of considerations and conclusions made by a group of experts who met in 2015 to evaluate these compounds. Although not universally true, many of these substances, from the time of their commercial introduction to their present-day use, have spread significantly in the environment, affecting animals and plants in the larger ecosystem, the overall health of the environment, and human health.
This book develops each of these issues before turning to the IARC review process, both the general process and its evolution over time, and compound selection criteria and deliberations regarding the substances discussed in the 2017 monograph. Final book sections detail scientific and private sector reactions to and implications of the IARC classifications. Hazard identification is contrasted with various models of quantitative risk assessment. The last chapters highlight the importance of hazard identification for members of domestic and global underserved communities involved in farming and landscape work, where exposures may vary widely, are not well-regulated, and where health outcomes are often not carefully documented.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Martha does research in environmental issues, including environmental science, environmental health, and environmental justice. Her most recent publication is 'Glyphosate: A review of its global use, environmental impact, and potential health effects on humans and other species'. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Studies and Science, published by Springer.
More recently, Martha Richmond has focused onhow the scientific community can work better with the regulatory community and lay public to develop informed approaches addressing environmental problems. She is specially interested in addressing issues that affect the larger ecosystem or issues that disproportionately affect under-served communities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cancer Hazards: Parathion, Malathion, Diazinon, Tetrachlorvinphos and Glyphosate
Book Subtitle: The 2015 IARC Classifications: Implications for Regulation, Environmental Justice, and Global Health
Authors: Martha Richmond
Series Title: AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81953-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81952-1Published: 27 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81955-2Published: 28 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81953-8Published: 26 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2509-9787
Series E-ISSN: 2509-9795
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 153
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Environmental Health, Ecotoxicology