Publications by Subject

NICHOLAS A. ASHFORD: PUBLICATIONS LISTED BY SUBJECT AREA

http://ashford. mit.edu 

 

I. LAW AND REGULATION

BOOKS

10.  Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda, N.A. Ashford and C.C. Caldart, MIT Press, 2008, 1088 pages.  See

http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012386

5.  Technology, Law and the Working Environment, N.A. Ashford and C.C. Caldart, Second Edition, Island Press, 1996, 641 pages.

4.  Monitoring the Worker for Exposure and Disease:  Scientific, Legal and Ethical Consideration in the Use of Biomarkers, N.A. Ashford, C.J. Spadafor, D.B. Hattis and C.C. Caldart, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1990, 224 pp.

1.  Crisis in the Workplace: Occupational Disease and Injury, N.A. Ashford, A Report to the Ford Foundation, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, March 2, 1976, 579 pp.

 

SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

34. “The Clean Air Act” N. A. Ashford and Charles C. Caldart in David Coates, Kathy Smith and Charles Walldorf (editors), The Oxford Companion to American Politics, New York: Oxford University Press, July 2012

32. “Government Regulation of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety in the United States and the European Union” Nicholas A. Ashford and Charles C. Caldart in Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, 6th ed. Barry S. Levy, David H. Wegman, Rosie Sokas, and Sherry Baron (eds.), Oxford University Press 2010.  Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55358

31. “Reflections on Environmental Liability Schemes In the United States and European Union: Limitations and Prospects For Improvement” in Environmental Liability: Theoretical Developments and Applications, (2010) pp. 59-69, Bar Association of Pireaus, Greece; Presented at the Conference on Environmental Liability, Piraeus Bar Association, Piraeus, Greece, 26-27 June 2009 Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55293

30. “Environmental Regulation, Globalization, and Innovation” Chapter 24 in Kevin P. Gallagher (ed.), Handbook on Trade and the Environment Edward Elgar: Chettendam and Northampton, 2009, 297-307. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55302

29. “Environmental Protection Laws”, Nicholas A. Ashford and Charles C. Caldart in Encyclopedia of Public Health, Elsevier, 2008, pp. 390-401.  Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41847

28. “The Legacy Of The Precautionary Principle In U.S. Law: The Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis and Risk Assessment as Undermining Factors in Health, Safety and Environmental Protection” in Nicolas de Sadeleer (ed.), Implementation the Precautionary Principle: Approaches from the Nordic Countries. the EU and the United States Earthscan: London, 2007, pp. 352-378. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38470

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: General

80. “Options for a Statutory General Safety Requirement (GSR): Lessons from Selected Experiences of the United States and Europe” in press.

78. “Rethinking the Role of Information in Chemicals Policy: Implications for TSCA and REACH”, Lars Koch and Nicholas A. Ashford, Journal of Cleaner Production 14(1): 31-46 2006. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38476 Revised version published in Environmental Law Network International 2(2005):22-37. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55292

77. “Implementing the Precautionary Principle: Incorporating Science, Technology, Fairness, and Accountability in Environmental, Health, and Safety Decisions” International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, 5(2/3/4):112-124, 2005. Based on an article found in Int J Occup Med Environ Health, 2004; 17(1): 59-67 and reprinted in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 2005; 11(1): 85-96.  Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38477

76. “Scientific, Ethical and Legal Challenges in Work-Related Genetic Testing in the United States,” Eur. J. Oncol. Library, 4: 33-59, 2005.  Available at

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38478

68. “Implementing A Precautionary Approach In Decisions Affecting Health, Safety, And The Environment: Risk, Technology Alternatives, And Tradeoff Analysis” in The Role of Precaution in Chemicals Policy, Favorita Papers 01/2002, Elisabeth Freytag, Thomas Jakl, Gerhard Loibl, Michael Wittmann (eds.), Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, pp. 128-140. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1587

40.  "Exploiting Opportunities for Pollution Prevention in EPA Enforcement Agreements," Monica Becker and Nicholas Ashford, Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 29 No. 5, August 1995, American Chemical Society, pp 220A-226A. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1545

39.  "Recent Experience Encouraging the Use of Pollution Prevention in Enforcement Settlements B Final Report," Monica M. Becker and Nicholas A. Ashford, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Final Report, EPA 300-R-95-006; NTIS No. PB95232781, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, May 1995. 

27.  "Science and Values in the Regulatory Process," Nicholas A. Ashford, in Statistical Science, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Volume 3, Number 3, August 1988, pp. 377-383. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=08834237%28198808%293%3A3%3C377%3ASAVITR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R

23.  "Changes and Opportunities in the Environment for Technology Bargaining," Nicholas A. Ashford and Christine Ayers, Notre Dame Law Review, Volume 62, Number 5, June 1987, pp. 810-858. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1546

19.  "Human Monitoring: Scientific, Legal, and Ethical Considerations," Nicholas A. Ashford, Christine J. Spadafor, and Charles C. Caldart, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 1984, pp. 263-363. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1547

18.  "Advisory Committees in OSHA and EPA: Their Use in Regulatory Decision-Making," Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 9, Issue 1, Winter 1984, pp. 72-82.  Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1548

15.  “Law and Science Policy in Federal Regulation of Formaldehyde,” Nicholas A. Ashford, William C. Ryan and Charles C. Caldart, in Science, 25 November 1983, Volume 222, pp. 894-900. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41845

14.  "The Control of Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace: A Prescription for Prevention," Nicholas A. Ashford and Charles C. Caldart, Industrial Relations Law Journal, Volume 5, Issue 3, 1983, pp. 523-563. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1549

13.  "A Hard Look at Federal Regulation of Formaldehyde: A Departure from Reasoned Decision-Making," Nicholas A. Ashford, William C. Ryan, and Charles C. Caldart, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Volume 7: 297-370, 1983. Available at

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1550

4.  "Unsafe Working Conditions: Employee Rights Under LMRA and OSHA," N.A. Ashford and J.I. Katz, Notre Dame Lawyer, Volume 52, Number 5, June 1977, pp. 802-836. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1551

 

II. GOVERNMENT, REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

 

SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

25. “Government Regulation” Nicholas A. Ashford and Charles C. Caldart in Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, 5th ed. Barry S. Levy and David H. Wegman (eds.), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2005, pp. 39-73.  Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38473

24. “Negotiated Regulation, Implementation and Compliance in the United States”, Nicholas A. Ashford and Charles C. Caldart in The Handbook of Environmental Voluntary Agreements Eduoardo Croci (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publisher – Environmental and Policy Series, 2005, pp.135-159.  Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41848

23. “Government and Environmental Innovation in Europe and North America” in ­Towards Environmental Innovation Systems Matthias Weber and Jens Hemmelskamp (eds.) Springer, Heidelberg, 2005, pp 159-174.  ISBN.  Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41850

20.  “Pathways to Sustainability: Evolution or Revolution?” in Regional Development in the Network Society, Marina van Geenhuizen, David V. Gibson, and Manuel V. Heitor (eds.), Purdue University Press, 2005, pp. 35-59. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38474

19. “Innovation – The Pathway to Threefold Sustainability” in The Steilmann Report: The Wealth of People: An Intelligent Economy for the 21st Century Lehner, Franz, Charles, Anthony, Bieri, Stephan, and Paleocrassas, Yannis (eds.) Brainduct ® - digital edition, 2001 pp 233-274, based on Ashford, Nicholas A., “Technological, Organisational, and Social Innovation as Pathways to Sustainability.” Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1584

17.  "An Innovation-Based Strategy for a Sustainable Environment," in Innovation-Oriented Environmental Regulation: Theoretical Approach and Empirical Analysis, J. Hemmelskamp, K. Rennings, F. Leone (Eds.) ZEW Economic Studies. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, New York 2000, pp 67-107 (Proceedings of the International Conference of the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Potsdam, Germany, 27-29 May 1999.) Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1590

8.  "An Innovation-Based Strategy for the Environment," in Worst Things First? The Debate Over Risk-based National Environmental Priorities, A. M. Finkel and D. Golding (eds.), Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, 1994, pp. 275-314. 

7.  "Promoting Technological Changes in the Workplace: Public and Private Initiatives," in Technological Change in the Workplace: Health Impacts for Workers, M. Brown and J. Froines (eds.), UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations, Los Angeles, CA, 1993, pp 23-36.

6.  "Understanding Technological Responses of Industrial Firms to Environmental Problems: Implications for Government Policy," in Environmental Strategies for Industry: International Perspectives on Research Needs and Policy Implications, K. Fischer and J. Schot (eds.), Island Press, Washington, DC, 1993, pp 277-307. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1552

4.  "Liability, Innovation, and Safety in the Chemical Industry," N.A. Ashford and R.F. Stone, in The Liability Maze: The Impact of Liability Law on Safety and Innovation, Robert Litan and Peter Huber (eds.), Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1991, pp 367-427. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1553

2.  "Environmental, Health and Safety Regulations and Technological Innovation," N.A. Ashford, G.R. Heaton, W.C. Priest, in Technological Innovation for a Dynamic Economy, C. T. Hill and J. M. Utterback (eds.), Pergamon Press, Inc., NY, 1979, pp. 161-221. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1554

1.  "The Effects of Health, Safety, and Environmental Regulation on Technological Change in the Chemical Industry: Theory and Evidence," N.A. Ashford and G.R. Heaton, in Federal Regulation and Chemical Innovation, C.T. Hill (ed.), American Chemical Society, 1979, pp. 45-

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: General

82. “Major Challenges To Education for Sustainable Development: Can the Current Nature of Institutions of Higher Education Hope to Educate the Change Agents Needed for Sustainable Development?” Paper presented at the 2010 ERSCP and EMU Conference on Knowledge Collaboration and Learning for Sustainable Development, Delft, 25-29 October, 2010.

81. “The Importance of Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development” N. A. Ashford and R. P. Hall (2011). Sustainability 3(1): 270-292. Available at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability Type in “Ashford” in the author search.

Based on an article previously published in EKONOMIAZ:Revista Vasca de Economia, Número 75. III/10, ECO-INNOVACIÓN. MÁS ALLÁ DE LOS FACTORES, LA PRODUCTIVIDAD DE LOS RECURSOS NATURALES. English: Environmental Regulation, Globalization, and Innovation: Integrating Industrial, Environmental, and Trade Policies. Available at http://www1.euskadi.net/ekonomiaz/taula4_c.apl?REG=1084 Spanish: Regulación medioambiental, globalización e innovación: integración de las políticas industriales, medioambientales y comerciales Available at http://www1.euskadi.net/ekonomiaz/taula4_c.apl?REG=1083

81b. See also: “Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development” N. A. Ashford and R. P. Hall (2012).Administrative & Regulatory News 37(3):21-23, American Bar Association..

79. “Science, Society, and Sustainability: Challenges for Research and Policy in the 21st Century.”  Science, Society & Sustainability: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation (November 2009, Athens), E. Koukios, D. Gibson, and L. Karaoglanoglou (eds), Santorini, Greece 18-12 June 2006, pp. 9-24. available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59958

66.  “Government And Innovation in Environmental Transformations in Europe And North America”, in Special Issue on Ecological Modernization, Sonnenfeld, David and Mol, Arthur, (Eds.) American Behavioral Scientist, Volume 45, No. 9, pp. 1417-1434, 2002. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1579

63.  "Porter Debate Stuck in 1970s" in The Environmental Forum, Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C., September/October 1999, p.3. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1583

26. "Regulation and Technology Options: The Case of Occupational Exposure to Formaldehyde," K.M. Rest and N.A. Ashford, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Volume 1, Spring 1988, pp. 63-96.

20.  "Using Regulation to Change the Market for Innovation," N.A. Ashford, C. Ayers, R.F. Stone, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Volume 9, Number 2, Summer 1985, pp. 419-466. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1555

16.  "Regulation and Technological Innovation in the Chemical Industry," Nicholas A. Ashford and George R. Heaton, Jr., Law and Contemporary Problems, Duke University School of Law, Volume 46, Number 3, Summer 1983, pp. 109-157. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1556

 

III. DECISION-MAKING AND COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS

 

BOOKS

8.  Analyzing the Benefits of Health, Safety, and Environmental Regulations, N.A. Ashford et al., Cambridge:  Center for Policy Alternatives at MIT, CPA-82-16, September 1982.

9. Evaluating Chemical Regulations:  Trade-Off Analysis and Impact Assessment for Environmental Decision-Making, N.A. Ashford, D. Hattis, G.R. Heaton, J.I. Katz, W.C. Priest, NTIS #PB81-195067, E.M. Zolt, 1980.

 

SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

11.  "Economic Issues in Occupational Health and Safety," N. A. Ashford and R. F. Stone, in Environmental and Occupational Medicine, W.N. Rom (ed.), Little, Brown & Company, Boston, MA, 1998, pp 1681-1690.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: General

62.  "Compliance Costs: The Neglected Issue of Technological Innovation", in the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work Magazine, Bilbao, Fall 1999, pp. 30-33.

53.  "The Importance Of Taking Technological Innovation Into Account in Estimating The Costs and Benefits Of Worker Health and Safety Regulation", in Costs and Benefits of Occupational Safety and Health: Proceedings of the European Conference on Costs and Benefits of Occupational Health and Safety 1997, The Hague, Holland, 28-30 May 1997, J. Mossink & F. Licher (eds.), 1998, pp 69-78. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1585

8. Alternatives to Cost-Benefit Analysis in Regulatory Decisions," Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 363, April 30, 1981, pp. 129-137. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1557

 

IV. NEGOTIATED REGULATION AND PUBLIC/WORKER PARTICIPATION

 

BOOKS

1.  Public Participation in Contaminated Communities, N.A. Ashford and K.M. Rest, 2001 REVISE (available at http://ashford.mit.edu/public-participation-contaminated-communities)

 

SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

24. Negotiated Regulation, Implementation and Compliance in the United States, Nicholas a. Ashford and Charles C. Caldart, The Handbook of Environmental Voluntary Agreements Eduoardo Croci (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publisher – Environmental and Policy Series, 2005, pp.135-159.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: General

65.  "Negotiated Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety agreements in the United States: Lessons for Policy", N.A. Ashford and C.C. Caldart, in Journal of Cleaner Production, 2001, Volume 9, Number 2, pp 99-120. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1558

57.  "Negotiation as a Means of Developing and Implementing Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Policy" Charles C. Caldart and Nicholas A. Ashford, Harvard Environmental Law Review, 23(1):141-202, 1999. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1559

 

V. POLLUTION PREVENTION, INHERENT SAFETY, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

BOOKS

11. Technology, Globalization and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State, N. A. Ashford and R. P Hall, Yale University Press, 2011, 720 pages. See: http://ralphphall.wordpress.com/technology-globalization-and-sustainable-development/

For presentations of the ideas addressed in this book see:

http://techtv.mit.edu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ashford&x=0&y=0

 

SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

33. “Reducing Physical Hazards: Encouraging Inherently Safer Production” 2012 in Robert Boethling, Adelina Voutchkova, and Paul Anastas (Eds) Designing Safer Chemicals Handbook of Green Chemistry Series 9:485-500  Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany

30.  “Environmental Regulation, Globalization, and Innovation” Chapter 24 in Kevin P. Gallagher (ed.), Handbook on Trade and the Environment Edward Elgar: Chettendam and Northampton, 2009.

27. “The Role of the United States–Greek Initiative for Technology Cooperation with the Balkans in Constructing a Unified Environmental Technology Plan” Nicholas A. Ashford and Christi Electris, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Vol. 6, No. 3, September 2006, pp. 391–397.  Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38471

22. “Pathways to Sustainability: Evolution or Revolution?” in Regional Development and Conditions for Innovation in the Network Society, Marina van Geenhuizen, David V. Gibson, and Manuel V. Heitor (eds.), Purdue University Press, 2005, pp. 31-55. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1588

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: General

89. Letter to the Editor: “Trade Policy” Winter 2014 Issues in Science and Technology:14-16. Available at http://www.issues.org/30.2/forum.html

88. Book Review: “Climate Change Geoengineering: Philosophical Perspectives, Legal Issues, Governance Frameworks, edited by Wil C. G. Burns and Andrew L. Strauss. Anthem Enviroexperts Review. Available at http://www.anthemenviroexperts.com/?p=585

85. “Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Financial and Environmental Sustainability” (2012). N. A Ashford, R. P. Hall, and R. Ashford. The European Financial Review October-November 2012, pp. 63-68. Available at http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=5884

84. “Broadening Capital Acquisition with the Earnings of Capital as a Means of Sustainable Growth and Environmental Sustainability” (2012). R. Ashford, R. P. Hall, and N. A Ashford. The European Financial Review October-November 2012, pp. 70-74. Available at http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=5984

83. “The Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Environmental Sustainability” (2012). N. A Ashford, R. P. Hall, and R.H. Ashford.  Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. Volume 2, Issue 1 Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422412000032

81. ‘“The Importance of Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development” N. A. Ashford and R. P. Hall (2011). Sustainability 3(1): 270-292. Available at http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/3/1/270/pdf “The Importance of Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development” N. A. Ashford and R. P. Hall (2011). Sustainability 3(1): 270-292. Available at http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/3/1/270/pdf Based on an article previously published in EKONOMIAZ:Revista Vasca de Economia, Número 75. III/10, ECO-INNOVACIÓN. MÁS ALLÁ DE LOS FACTORES, LA PRODUCTIVIDAD DE LOS RECURSOS NATURALES. English: Environmental Regulation, Globalization, and Innovation: Integrating Industrial, Environmental, and Trade Policies. Available at http://www1.euskadi.net/ekonomiaz/taula4_c.apl?REG=1084 Spanish: Regulación medioambiental, globalización e innovación: integración de las políticas industriales, medioambientales y comerciales Available at http://www1.euskadi.net/ekonomiaz/taula4_c.apl?REG=1083

75. “Major Challenges To Engineering Education For Sustainable Development: What Has To Change To Make It Creative, Effective, And Acceptable To The Established Disciplines”, Presented at the Conference on Engineering Education in Sustainable Development, 24-25 October 2002, Delft, The Netherlands. Expanded version in International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 3(4): 2004

73. “The Feasibility of Encouraging Inherently Safer Production in Industrial Firms” Zwetsloot G.I.J.M. and N. Askounes Ashford, in a Special Issue on Safety and Design, Safety Science, 2003, 41(2/3). E. Fadier Guest Editor. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1581

72. “Pathways To Sustainable Industrial Transformations:  Cooptimising Competitiveness, Employment, And Environment*”Presented at the Conference on Engineering Education in Sustainable Development, 24-25 October 2002, Delft, The Netherlands.

71. “Technology-Focused Regulatory Approaches For Encouraging Sustainable Industrial Transformations: Beyond Green, Beyond The Dinosaurs, And Beyond Evolutionary Theory”, Presented at the 3rd Blueprint Workshop on Instruments for Integrating Environmental and Innovation Policy, 26-27 September 2002, Brussels.

70. “Inherently Safer Production, A Natural Complement to Cleaner Production” Zwetsloot G. and N. A. Ashford (2002), Industry and Environment 25(3-4): 84-87, UN Environmental Programme, Paris.

69. Pathways to Sustainable Industrial Transformations: Cooptimizing Competitiveness, Employment, and Environment Nicholas A. Ashford, Wim Hafkamp, Frits Prakke, Philip Vergragt, et al., 30 June 2001, ASHFORD ASSOCIATES, Cambridge, MA 02139. See See http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41844

68. Pathways to Sustainable Industrial Transformations: Cooptimizing Competitiveness, Employment, and Environment Nicholas A. Ashford, Wim Hafkamp, Frits Prakke, Philip Vergragt, et al., 30 June 2001, ASHFORD ASSOCIATES, Cambridge, MA 02139.

61.  "Encouraging Inherently Safer Production in European Firms: A Report from the Field" N.A. Ashford and G. Zwetsloot, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Special Issue on Risk Assessment and Environmental Decision Making, A. Amendola and D. Wilkinson (eds.), 78 (2000): 123-144. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1582

52.  "Policies For The Promotion Of Inherent Safety", New Solutions, Summer 1997, pp 46-52.

50.  "Industrial Safety: The Neglected Issue in Industrial Ecology" in the Special Issue on Industrial Ecology, Ashford, N. A. and Côté, R. P. (eds,), Journal of Cleaner Production, 1997. 5(1/2), pp 115-121 (available at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jclepro).

38.  Designing the Sustainable Enterprise: Research Needs and Policy Implications for a Sustainable Future, Nicholas A. Ashford and Ralph Meima, Summary Report of the Second International Research Conference held November 1993, Tufts University, Supplement to

Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 3, Part 2, 1994, 40 pp.   

37. Government Strategies and Policies for Cleaner Production, United Nations Environmental Program, Paris, 1994, ISBN 92-807-1442-2, 32 pp. Available at

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1560

34.  The Encouragement of Technological Change for Preventing Chemical Accidents: Moving Firms from Secondary Prevention and Mitigation to Primary Prevention, N.A. Ashford et al., A Report to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development at MIT, Cambridge, MA, July 1993.  Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1561

 

VI. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY

 

BOOKS/SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES

3.  Industrial Ecology, Nicholas A. Ashford and Raymond Cote (eds.) Special Issue of The Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 5, Number 1/2, 1997, 181 pp (available under ‘Special Issues: Industrial Ecology 1997’ at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jclepro).

 

VII. ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

BOOKS

2.  Chemical Exposures:  Low Levels and High Stakes, N.A. Ashford and C.S. Miller, Second Edition, John Wiley Press, 1998, 440 pages. Available at http://www.chemicalexposures.com

 

SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

18.  "Multiple Chemical Intolerance and Indoor Air Quality", C. S. Miller and N. A. Ashford in Indoor Air Quality Handbook, J. Spengler, J. M. Samet, and J. F. McCarthy (Eds.), McGraw-Hill, New York, 2000, chapter 27, 32 pages. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1562

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: General

70. “The Crisis in U.S. and International Cancer Policy” S. S. Epstein, N. A. Ashford, B. Blackwelder, G. Cohen, E. Goldsmith, A. Mazzocchi, and Q. D. Young, International Journal of Health Services, 32(4): 669-707, 2002.  Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38480

60.  "Low-level Chemical Sensitivity: Implications for Research and Social Policy", Brown, Amy and Myron Mehlman (eds.), Toxicology and Industrial Health: Special Issue on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, April-June 1999, 15(3-4), pp. 421-7. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1578

59.  "Social and Policy Implications of Low-Level Exposures to Chemicals", in Risk, Health, and Environment, NGO Background documents for the Third Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health and Parallel Healthy Planet Forum 16-18 June 1999, Maureen E. Butter (ed.), pp 31-34. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1586

49.  "Empirical Approaches for the Investigation of Toxicant-Induced Loss of Tolerance", C. Miller, N. Ashford, R. Doty, M. Lamielle, D. Otto, A. Rahill and L. Wallace, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol 105, Supplement 2, March 1997, pp 515-519. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1563

See also  http://ehis.niehs.nih.gov/members/1997/Suppl-2/miller2-full.html

47.  "Low-level Chemical Sensitivity: Current Perspectives" International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1996. 68:367-376. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1564

36. "Monitoring the Worker and the Community for Chemical Exposure and Disease: Legal and Ethical Considerations in the U.S.,"  Clinical Chemistry, 40/7B Supplement,  pp. 1426-1437, July 1994. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1580

 

VIII. LABOR ISSUES AND WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

 

BOOKS/SPECIAL PUBLICATONS

4.  Occupational Health and Safety in British Columbia: An Administrative Inventory of the WCB Prevention Division, K.M. Rest and N.A. Ashford, Ashford Associates, Cambridge, MA. 1997, 208 pages.

6. Worker Compensation for Radiation-Induced Illness: A Re-examination of Past Practices and Options for Change: A Report to the Department of Energy, N. A. Ashford, C. C. Caldart, D. B. Hattis and R. F. Stone, July 1996.

 

SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS/SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES

26. "Workers' Compensation," in Environmental and Occupational Medicine, 4th Edition, W.N. Rom (ed.), Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 2005, in press.  Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38472

25. “Government Regulation” Nicholas A. Ashford and Charles C. Caldart in Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, 5th ed. Barry S. Levy and David H. Wegman (eds.), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2005, pp. 39-73.

21. “Sustainable Development and Globalisation: New Challenges and Opportunities for Work Organisation” in Promoting New Forms of Work Organization and Other Cooperative Arrangements for Competitiveness and Employability, Christina Nova-Kaltsouni and Michael Kassotakis (eds.), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, (2004) pp. 50-61.  Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41852

20.  “Justice in the Global Work Life: The Right to Know, to Participate, and to Benefit in Sustainable Industrial Transformations,” Proceedings of the High-level Conference on Work Life in the 21st Century, 15-17 October 2001, Helsinki, in People and Work Research Reports 49:74-78, the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, 2002. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1589

15.  "The Economic and Social Context of Special Populations" in Special Populations in Occupational Health Frumkin, Howard  and Pransky, Glenn (eds.), Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews 14(3),1999, pp 485-493.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: General

87. “A Four-day Workweek: a Policy for Improving Employment and Environmental Conditions in Europe” (2013). N. A. Ashford and G. Kallis. The European Financial Review April-May 2013, pp. 53-58. Available at http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=6601

86. “‘Friday off’: Reducing Working hours in Europe” (2013). Giorgos Kallis, Michael Kalush, Hugh O’Flynn, Jack Rossiter, and Nicholas Ashford, Sustainability 4(5):1545-1567. Available at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability Type in “Ashford” in the author search.

85. “Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Financial and Environmental Sustainability” (2012). N. A Ashford, R. P. Hall, and R. Ashford. The European Financial Review October-November 2012, pp. 63-68. Available at http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=5884

84. “Broadening Capital Acquisition with the Earnings of Capital as a

Means of Sustainable Growth and Environmental Sustainability” (2012). R. Ashford, R. P. Hall, and N. A Ashford. The European Financial Review October-November 2012, pp. 70-74. Available at http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=5984

83. “The Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Environmental Sustainability” (2012). N. A Ashford, R. P. Hall, and R.H. Ashford.  Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. Volume 2, Issue 1 Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422412000032

48.  "The Role of Labour in Choosing and Implementing Information-based Technologies" in Work in the Information Society, Proceedings of the International Symposium, 20-22 May 1996, Finish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki 1996, pp 56-63. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1565

43.  Evaluation of the Relevance for Worker Health and Safety of Existing Environmental Technology Data-bases for Cleaner and Inherently Safer Technologies: A Report to the European Commission, Ashford, N., Banoutsos, I., Christiansen, K., Hummelmose, B. and Stratikopoulos, D. April 1996.