Securing recompense under nuisance law for crop damages from pesticide applications

Radon Exposure Assessment and Relative Effective Dose Estimation to Inhabitants of Puglia Region, South Italy

“…This difference could be attributed to minor opening of the windows during the night that contributes to increased indoor radon concentrations in the bedrooms. The finding of this study is in good agreement with the results from other authors [ 10 , 28 ] that found higher radon concentrations in bedrooms than in living rooms.…”

“…This finding could be attributed to proximity of the underground and ground levels to the soil that represents the main source of indoor radon and also due to higher radon accumulation on lower floors. This dependence of the radon concentrations on floor level was observed also by other authors [ 10 , 11 , 27 ].…”

“…Moreover, a recent epidemiological study stated that indoor radon exposure might increase lung cancer risk in never-smokers [ 8 ]. It is well know that radon concentrations in homes depends on a number of parameters such as building materials, geology, living environment, climate and so on [ 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ]. This also produces a large variability of concentrations of indoor radon on a small scale, to the point that rooms in buildings very close to each other or even in the same building may present very different radon concentrations.…”

Tort tradeoffs in cases of pesticide drift: A legal and economic analysis

“…Although a wide array of issues surrounding the adoption of pesticides have been explored in the academic literature, including issues of trade [10][11][12], land use [13,14], and consumer acceptance [15][16][17], analysis of the legal system is more limited [18][19][20][21]. This paper addresses that gap in the literature by illustrating and comparing, in an economic framework, how each tort works in a trial setting when applied as a cause of action.…”

Assigning liability for pesticide spray drift

“…Increasing demands for food production (Tscharntke et al, 2012), consumer support for organic food (Zander and Hamm, 2010), and outbreaks of diseases being carried by mosquitoes (Tedesco et al, 2010) have been accompanied by controversies involving the use of pesticides and spray drift (Centner, 2012). Spray drift is the physical movement of pesticide particles through the air from a target site to a non-target site and includes dust drift (EPA, 2009a).…”