Opportunities and constraints in monitoring chemical hazards by religious organizations

The paper has been entitled Opportunities and Constraints in Monitoring of Chemical Hazards by Religious Organizationsʹ for several reasons. First, by ‘opportunities’ I do not refer to the practical or effective commitment of religious groups to the monitoring of chemical hazards, but rather I indicate some of the church documents which encourage the faithful and, therefore, religious groups to be committed to the protection and conservation of the environment or to the improvement of humankindʹs relations to natural resources. Second, by ‘constraint’ I wish to describe what is being done and I must immediately state that what is being done is rarely related to the monitoring of chemical hazards.