Urban Environmental Quality and Human Health: Conceiving a Sustainable Future

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.07.11

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. The Endocrine System
  4. Evidence of Disruption in the Endocrine Systems of Diverse Animals
  5. Spread of Synthetic Chemicals
  6. Endocrine disrupting chemicals
  7. Conclusion
  8. Lesson Plans
  9. Reading Materials
  10. Electronic Resources
  11. Readings for Students
  12. Endnotes

Effects of Plastics on Top Predators' Health

Francisca Sorensen

Published September 2008

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Endnotes

1. Wargo, John. Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us. From Pesticides. Second Ed. New Haven and London. Yale University Press. 1998. pp 144 - 171

2. Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers. Our Stolen Future. Penguin Group. New York 1996. pp. 32

3. Schettler, Ted, Gina Solomon, Maria Valenti, and Annette Huddle. Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and Environment. Cambridge. 1999. pp. 151

4. Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers. Our Stolen Future. Penguin Group. New York 1996. pp. 32

5. Pituitary Gland and Endocrine Symptom Disorders: an Overview. www.hormone.org/Pituitary/overview.cfm

6. Schettler, Ted, Gina Solomon, Maria Valenti, and Annette Huddle. Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and Environment. Cambridge. 1999. pp.169

7. Wargo, John. Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us. From Pesticides. Second Ed. New Haven and London. Yale University Press. 1998. pp 15 - 42

8. Moore, Colleen F. Silent Scourge. Oxford University Press. 2003. pp 117- 119.

9. Fossi. M. C. , S. Casini, L. Marsili, A. Ausili, and G. Notarbartolo di Sciara. Are the Mediterranean Top

10. Predators Exposed to Toxicological Risk due to Endocrine Disruptors? In Environmental Hormones: the Scientific Basis of Endocrine Disruption. Ed. JohnA. McLachlan et al. New York Academy of Sciences. New York. 2001. pp73

11. Ibid.

12. Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers. Our Stolen Future. Penguin Group. New York 1996. pp.4

13. Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers. Our Stolen Future. Penguin Group. New York 1996. pp.5

14. Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers. Our Stolen Future. Penguin Group. New York 1996. pp.2

15. Norway's Polar Bears: Suspected Victims of PCB Contamination. Environmental Global Issues Map. McGraw Hill. www.mhhe.com/biosci/pae/es_map/articles/article_14mhtml

16. Kunsig, Robert. Siren Songs. Discover Science, Technology, and Future. July 2008. pp 14.

17. Hylland K., S. Feist, J.Thain, and L F"rlin. Molecular/Cellular Processes and the Health of the Individual . Effects of Pollution on Fish: Molecular Effects and Population Responses. Blackwell Science. Ames, Iowa. 2003. pp.136-140

18. Hayden, Thomas. Trashing the Oceans. U.S. News and World Report. 4 Nov.2002. www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Trashing-Oceans-Plastic4n pp4

19. Wargo, John, Mark R. Cullen, and Hugh S. Taylor. Eds. Plastics that may be Harmful to Children and Reproductive Health. Environment & Human Health, Inc. New Haven. 2008. pp 21.

20. Consumer Reports.org Consumer Protection A New Focus on Plastic Ingredient in Bottles and Cans. www.consumerreports.org/cro/consumer-protection.May 2008

21. Ritz, Janet. Toxic Alert: Bottles, Cans and BPA. The Environmental Staff. http//science.the environmentalist.org/2008/05/toxic-alert-plastic-bottles

22. Hentges, Steven G. Plastic Additives in Consumer Products. American Chemistry Council. Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Insurance, and Automotive Safety United States Senate. May 2008

23. Wargo, John, Mark R. Cullen, and Hugh S. Taylor. Eds. Plastics that may be Harmful to Children and Reproductive Health. Environment & Human Health, Inc. New Haven. 2008. pp 54 - 55

24. Hentges, Steven G. Plastic Additives in Consumer Products. American Chemistry Council. Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Insurance, and Automotive Safety United States Senate. May 2008

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