Research Catalog

Title

Environmental health : from global to local / Howard Frumkin, editor.

Publication

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Frumkin, Howard

Description

lvii, 1221 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"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 to ethics. Expert contributors discuss the major issues in contemporary environmental health: air, water, food safety, occupational health, radiation, chemical and physical hazards, vector control, and injuries. Also emphasizing a wide variety of issues of global interest, the thoroughly revised second edition contains updated information on such timely topics as toxicology exposure assessment, climate change, population pressure, developing nations and urbanization, energy production, building and community design, solid and hazardous waste, and disaster preparedness. In addition, each chapter of Environmental Health includes learning objectives, keypoints, and discussion questions."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Environmental health
• Environmental Health
• Environmental Medicine > methods
• Environmental Exposure > prevention & control
• Health risk assessment

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Howard Frumkin -- Pt. 1. Methods and Paradigms -- Pt. 2. Environmental Health on the Global Scale -- Pt. 3. Environmental Health on the Regional Scale -- Pt. 4. Environmental Health on the Local Scale -- Pt. 5. The Practice of Environmental Health.

ISBN

• 9780470404874 (cloth)
• 0470404876 (cloth)

LCCN

2009044623

OCLC

• ocn461256108
• 461256108
• SCSB-8857830

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries