Risk, Health and Safety
This law was passed in the wake of the Elixir of Sulfanilamide tragedy in 1937.
What is the Pure Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA)?
A report describing unsustainable consumption and overproduction in the Global North and enormous poverty in the Global South.
What is Our Common Future? (The Brundtland Report is acceptable.
This term is used to describe a disease or condition that is consistently present within a specific geographical area or population.
What is Endemic?
There are 9 of them.
What are the Planetary Boundaries?
This person used mapping and interviews to trace cases of a deadly cholera outbreak in London’s Soho district in 1854 to a single contaminated water pump on Broad Street. His removal of the pump handle is considered a landmark moment in public health.
Who is John Snow?
She authored a framework calling for a safe operating space for humanity.
Who is Kate Raworth?
In the 1990s, this New Jersey town had one of the highest rates of mesothelioma in the country.
What is Manville?
There are 17 of them.
What are the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
Legally, this is what a chemical with an LD50 of 50 milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight is called.
What is a poison?
Author of the Common Pool Resources Framework that challenged The Tragedy of the Commons.
Who is Elinor Ostrom?