Environmental Health
From Global to Local
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Beschreibung
This book provides a survey of the major issues in contemporary environmental and occupational health. Topics include environmental health hazards associated with human settlement, industrial activities, and agriculture and the food supply, including approaches to assessing, controlling, and preventing these hazards. Additionally, the book includes the topics of interest in environmental health, such as environmental epidemiology, risk assessment, radiation, agriculture and food safety, human uses and misuses of water, land, and air, the management of wastes created by humans. Also included are the technical foundations of environmental hazards, their impacts on public health, and the role of social, political, and regulatory factors in assessing, controlling, and preventing environmental hazards.
Autor*in
Howard Frumkin
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