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Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

  • 2nd Edition - August 21, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Jerome O. Nriagu
  • Language: English

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, Second Edition, Six Volume Set presents the newest release in this fundamental reference that updates and broadens the umbrella of environme… Read more

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Description

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, Second Edition, Six Volume Set presents the newest release in this fundamental reference that updates and broadens the umbrella of environmental health, especially social and environmental health for its readers. There is ongoing revolution in governance, policies and intervention strategies aimed at evolving changes in health disparities, disease burden, trans-boundary transport and health hazards. This new edition reflects these realities, mapping new directions in the field that include how to minimize threats and develop new scientific paradigms that address emerging local, national and global environmental concerns.

Key features

  • Represents a one-stop resource for scientifically reliable information on environmental health
  • Fills a critical gap, with information on one of the most rapidly growing scientific fields of our time
  • Provides comparative approaches to environmental health practice and research in different countries and regions of the world
  • Covers issues behind specific questions and describes the best available scientific methods for environmental risk assessment

Readership

Graduate students, researchers and practitioners across different disciplines in biomedical, natural and social sciences. In addition, policy makers and employees from the public and private sector dealing with environmental health issues

Table of contents

Noise Pollution: Exposure and Health Effects
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Health
Pollution Sources and Human Health
Environmental Epidemiology
Water Quality and Quantity
Global Environmental Health
Country and Area Specific Environmental Health Issues
Disparities and Social Determinants of Environmental Health
Metals/Metalloids: Exposure and Health Effects
Environmental Microbiology
Guidelines and Regulations
Air Pollution and Human Health

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 22, 2019
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Jerome O. Nriagu

Jerome Nriagu is Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Health and Research Professor Emeritus at the Center for Human Growth & Development, University of Michigan, where he directed the environmental health program for over two decades. Earlier, he was a Senior Research Scientist with Environment Canada and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on metals in the environment, environmental justice, and global environmental health, with fieldwork conducted across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Nriagu has authored or edited thirty books and more than three hundred articles, and from 2000 to 2008 was among the most-cited scientists in Environmental Studies and Ecology. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Science of the Total Environment for over 25 years, Editor-in-Chief of the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, and Founding Editor of Global Health Perspectives. His honors include the Alexander von Humboldt Distinguished Research Award, an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Alberta, and Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health and Research Professor Emeritus, Center for Human Growth & Development, University of Michigan, USA

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