Environmental health : from global to local

From the Publisher: The second edition of Environmental Health: From Global to Local, a comprehensive introductory text, offers an overview of the methodology and paradigms of this burgeoning field, ranging from ecology to epidemiology, from toxicology to environmental psychology, and from genetics...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frumkin, Howard (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass , c2010
Edition:2nd ed
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Ecology and environmental health
  • 2. Toxicology
  • 3. Environmental and occupational epidemiology
  • 4. Exposure assessment, industrial hygiene, and environmental management
  • 5. Environmental psychology
  • 6. Genetics and environmental health
  • 7. Environmental health ethics
  • 8. Environmental justice
  • 9. Population pressure
  • 10. Climate change
  • 11. Developing nations
  • 12. Air pollution
  • 13. Energy production
  • 14. Healthy communities
  • 15. Water and health
  • 16. Solid and hazardous waste
  • 17. Pest control and pesticides
  • 18. Food safety
  • 19. Healthy buildings
  • 20. Workplace health and safety
  • 21. Radiation
  • 22. Injuries
  • 23. Environmental disasters
  • 24. Nature contact
  • 25. Children
  • 26. Prevention in environmental health
  • 27. Environmental health practice
  • 28. Geographic information systems
  • 29. Risk assessment
  • 30. Environmental health policy
  • 31. Risk communication
  • 32. Legal remedies