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Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, Five-Volume Set




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 02/2011





Note Editore

Knowledge in the field of environmental health is growing rapidly. Within the context of external factors that define its boundaries, environmental health has evolved over time into a complex, multidisciplinary and ill-defined field with uncertain solutions. Many of the key determinants and solutions to environmental health lie outside the direct realm of health and are strongly dependent on environmental changes, water and sanitation, industrial development, education, employment, trade, tourism, agriculture, urbanization, energy, housing and national security. Environmental risks, vulnerability and variability manifest themselves in different ways and at different time scales. While there are shared global and transnational problems, each community, country or region faces its own unique environmental health problems, the solution of which depends on circumstances surrounding the resources, customs, institutions, values and environmental vulnerability. This work will contain critical reviews and assessments of environmental health practices and research that have worked in places and thus can guide programs and economic development in other countries or regions.

Environmental health draws upon the methods and findings of many established academic disciplines, from clinical medicine to epidemiology, chemistry and biology to toxicology, economics to political science and ethics. The interdisciplinary nature of the pursuit underscores the need to synthesize the results of increasingly narrow academic disciplines and to incorporate their contributions into a big-picture understanding of the dependence of our health on the environment. Integrative assessment, whether qualitative or quantitative, is a useful approach in environmental health. This work seeks to conceptualize environmental health more clearly, to describe the best available scientific methods that can be used in characterizing and managing environmental health risks, to extend the field of environmental health through new theoretical perspectives and heightened appreciation of social, economic and political contexts, and to encourage a richer analysis in the field through examples of diverse experiences in dealing with the health-environment interface. The approach is to avoid gloom and doom and instead provide a framework for further research that is based on valuable ideas and experiences from different parts of the world.

With some categorical threats, it may be possible to establish clear causal linkages and effects but where the health hazard is the result of environmental change, the risk bundles are likely to embrace interactions among streams of fundamental human processes including public policies, economic activities, technological applications, and varying lifestyles. Dealing with environmental risks invariably involves coping with the uncertain, the unknowable and the inherently indeterminable. The situation is not helped by the fact that mechanisms relating development hazards, environmental exposures and health are generally lacking and integrated databases and information systems to support policy and decision-making, planning and evaluation are rarely available at relevant spatial and time scales. A lot of the environmental health programs and policies have therefore been driven by political expediency, scientific weight of evidence or precautionary principles rather than based on sound scientific principles. This work will be guided by the need to (i) provide a comprehensive overview of the existing and widely scattered knowledge base in the emerging field; (ii) place environmental health and risks in the broader context of environmental change and associated ecological, political, economic, social and cultural drivers of the change; (iii) identify and assess potential interventions to prevent or remediate the risks; and (iv) define priorities for further research.



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Autore

Prof. Nriagu was the Editor-in-Chief of the first edition of this encyclopedia. He was the Editor of Science of the Total Environment for more than 25 years, Founding Editor of Global Health Perspectives and has served on the editorial boards of many other journals. He taught global environmental health for years and has conducted research in many foreign countries including India, Mongolia, Qatar, Jordan, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Zambia, Jamaica and Brazil. He has served as scientific advisor to many agencies and international organizations including the World Bank, World Health Organization, United Nations University, US Environmental Protection Agency, Alberta Ministry of the Environment, International Center for Environmental and Nuclear Sciences (Jamaican government), etc. His accolades include Alexander van Humboldt Distinguished Research Award, Honorary Doctor of Science degree (University of Alberta, Canada) and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Nriagu was on the faculty and Director of the environmental health program in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan for over 20 years. Before that he was senior Research Scientist with Environment Canada and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo. He is currently Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health and Research Professor Emeritus, Center for Human Growth & Development, University of Michigan.










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9780444522733

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 285 x 216 mm
Formato: Hardback
Pagine Arabe: 5016


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