Asbestos Disaster Lessons from Japan’s Experience /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Miyamoto, Kenichi (Editor), Morinaga, Kenji (Editor), Mori, Hiroyuki (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Environment.; Political science.; Medicine.; Epidemiology.; Environmental health.; Social sciences.; Environmental Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Political Science.; Social Sciences, general.

Japan’s asbestos disasters, encompassing both occupational disease and environmental pollution, have been caused principally by the asbestos textile, asbestos cement water pipe, and construction industries. This book is unique in its interdisciplinary approach to those disasters as it incorporates m...