Environmental Management and Socioeconomic Challenges of Removing Asbestos-Cement Roofs

Ewa Wilk (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

142 Seiten

2025
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-041-02248-0 (ISBN)

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Environmental Management and Socioeconomic Challenges of Removing Asbestos-Cement Roofs addresses the urgent problems regarding asbestos-cement roof removal due to the carcinogenic impacts on human health. Asbestos has been designated as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialised cancer research body operating under the World Health Organization (WHO). Many countries around the world have taken measures to limit or eliminate asbestos from production and use. Despite undertaking research on comparing countries in terms of raw asbestos usage and production, there is a lack of data on the current state of use of asbestos-containing products in various countries. This book helps to fill this gap and identifies the social and economic challenges that governments and local communities face in eliminating asbestos-cement roofs that are still in use. Further, it aims to identify the risks and challenges in economic and social terms and estimate their mitigation costs.

• Examines the costs of removing asbestos, and how to ensure the necessary capacity of landfills accepting hazardous waste containing asbestos.

• Provides background information on the manufacture, characteristics, and applications of asbestos.

• Describes how to utilise neural networks for the identification and modelling of the quantity of asbestos-cement roofs.

Ewa Wilk is a Research Scientist (adjunct) at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Department of Geoinformatics, Cartography and Remote Sensing.

Preface

Author Biography

1. Introduction.

2. From Ancient Magic Mineral to Modern Global Health Hazard.

3. Understanding Global Asbestos through Resources and Production.

4. Towards Operational Detection of Asbestos-Cement Roofs.

5. Estimating the Quantity of Asbestos-Cement Roofs at National Level: Methods and Challenges.

6. Key Determinants of Asbestos-Cement Roof Prevalence.

7. Storage of Hazardous Waste Containing Asbestos.

8. The Challenge of Asbestos Legacy.

9. Strategies for Asbestos Abatement: From Regulatory Frameworks to Practical Implementation

10. Summary and Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	6 Tables, black and white; 15 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 24 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-041-02248-4 / 1041022484
ISBN-13	978-1-041-02248-0 / 9781041022480
Zustand	Neuware