Books by Allan Mazur

Mazur reexamines the circumstances that made an upstate New York neighborhood synonymous with ecological catastrophe and triggered federal "Superfund" legislation to clean up thousands of hazardous waste sites. Borrowing the multi-viewpoint technique of Rashomon, the book reveals that there are many versions of what occurred at Love Canal.

Examines social problems around the world.

There is an agreement that CFCs destroy stratospheric ozone. On the other hand, research does not support claims that electromagnetic fields from transmission lines cause an increase of leukemia. Addressing one of the most vexing problems in risk policy, this book asks how we can tell, at an early stage, how seriously we should take a new warning.