Understanding environmental health : how we live in the world / Nancy Irwin Maxwell.
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TextPublication details: Burlington, Mass. : Jones & Bartlett Learning, c2014.Edition: Second EditionDescription: ix, 405 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781449665371 (pbk.)
- 613.1 MAX 23 008812
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chap. 1. A preview of environmental health --
Chap. 2. The science and methods of environmental health --
Understanding environmental hazards to human health --
Responding to environmental hazards to human health --
Precautionary approaches in environmental health policy --
Chap. 3. Living with nature --
Infectious disease --
Poisons in nature --
Allergy and asthma --
Natural disasters --
Naturally occurring radiation --
Chap. 4. Producing energy --
Energy from fossil fuels --
Electricity from nuclear fuel --
Alternatives to fossil and nuclear fuels --
Chap. 5. Producing manufactured goods --
Synthetic organic chemicals --
Toxic metals --
Nano-scale materials --
Physical hazards in the workplace --
Asthma-causing agents in the workplace --
Patterns in exposure to the products and byproducts of manufacturing --
Regulation of industrial chemicals and wastes --
Chap. 6. Producing food --
Modern crop production practices --
Modern livestock production practices --
Impacts of modern agriculture on global climate --
Modern fishing --
From source to table --
Organic farming and locally grown foods --
Regulation of food and the activities that produce it --
Chap. 7. Living in the world we made --
The "metabolism" of communities --
Management of sewage wastes --
Drinking water: public systems and private wells --
Solid waste and its management --
Urban settings in less developed countries --
The built environment in more developed countries --
Lifestyles: things we do, things we use --
Sharing global impacts and resources.
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