Public responsibility

Problem + Research + Capital = Progress. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 31 (May 1939) 504-506. Kettering file 19/103. Source for the tough, uncompromising problem bromine TEL goes on sale in service stations and public response and tractors with TEL. 

For more information, visit www.bt.cdc.gov or call the CDC public response hotline at (888) 246-2675 (English),... 

The Hopkinton Town Council met last night to address the question of building a skate-board ramp in Wilcox Park, but the public response segment of the meeting took much longer than anticipated, and the question had to be shelved until next meeting. 

The ability of people to obtain information about private-good risks and take cost-effective precautions against them is illustrated by the public response to radon exposure. Once information about radon exposure risks became public and geologists asserted that the northeastern area of the United States was prone to radon release, companies were quickly started to measure residential radon levels and to install positive pressure systems to keep radon from seeping into basements. 

Einsiedel, E., and B. Thorne. 1999. Public responses to uncertainty. Pp. 43-57 in Communicating Uncertainty Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science, S.M. Friedman, S. Dunwoody, and C.L. Rogers, eds. Mahwah, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Frewer, L.J., C. Howard, and R. Shepherd. 1998. The influence of initial attitudes on responses to communication about genetic engineering in food production. Agr. Hum. Values 15(l) 15-30. 

Johnson, B.B. 2003a. Further notes on public response to uncertainty in risk and science. Risk Anal. 23(4) 781-789. 

G. Zbinden, Acute toxicity testing, public responsibility and scientific challenges. Cell Biol. Toxicol. 2(3) 325-335, 1986. 

The role that the public has assumed - neither enshrined in the treaty documentation nor anticipated by the States Parties is another unique characteristic of the CWC. Here again, the Convention is evolutionary compared with earlier treaties and international agreements. Chemical weapons disposal has emerged as a vivid example of how local environmental justice concerns can intersect with global disarmament and nonproliferation efforts. With no formal inducement, the public has become a player in the execution of the CWC-mandated destruction of chemical weapons. What lessons can be learned from the public response and how... 

Details on South Korea s declared chemical stockpile are even sparser than those from India - it is estimated to possess less than 1,500 metric tons of unspecified agents. Reportedly, 37 per cent of its declared stockpile had been destroyed as of December 2003. Public responses are not readily apparent in open sources. 

Oil spills and coal mining command considerable attention from the media because they are often large scale and visually very dramatic. Nothing seems worse than a mass of toxic crude oil and tarry hydrocarbons smeared over the natural habitats of some foreshore or the sight of strip mining operations. As a result, there is a massive public response and a frenzy of activity by agencies, community groups, and politicians. 

Informed choice and greater public responsibility through better use of information, decision making, and incentives for behavioral change. 

Nigg, J.M. Awareness and behavior public response to prediction awareness. In Perspectives on Increasing Hazard Awareness Saarinen, T.F., Ed. University of Colorado Institute of Behavioral Science Boulder, CO, 1982 36-51. 

The committee also examines how emergency response professionals estimate the potential population exposure from a chemical event, reviews emergency response activities and public responses, and discusses how the events are communicated to local news media and interested citizens groups. These communications have important implications, since they affect how political leaders, regulators, and the general public view the chemical demilitarization program. 

---