Environmental Health : : Third Edition / / Dade W. Moeller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Moeller, Dade W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (624 p.)

Environmental Health has established itself as the most succinct and comprehensive textbook on the subject. This extensively revised and rewritten third edition continues this tradition by incorporating new developments and by adding timely coverage of topics such as environmental economics and terrorism. As in previous volumes, the new edition presents balanced assessments of environmental problems, examining their local and global implications, their short- and long-range impacts, and their importance in both developed and less developed countries of the world. The Third Edition also addresses emerging issues such as environmental justice, deforestation, the protection of endangered species, multiple chemical sensitivity, and the application of the threshold concept in evaluating the effects of toxic and radioactive materials. Whether discussing acid rain, ozone depletion, global warming, or more traditional subjects such as the management and control of air, water, and food, Dade Moeller emphasizes the need for a systems approach. As with previous volumes, Environmental Health, Third Edition, offers a depth of understanding that is without peer. While it covers technical details, it is also a book that anyone with an interest in the environment can pick up and browse at random.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Abbreviations -- 1 The scope -- 2 Toxicology -- 3 Epidemiology -- 4 The Workplace -- 5 Air in the Home and Community -- 6 Food -- 7 Drinking Water -- 8 Liquid Waste -- 9 Solid Waste -- 10 Rodents and Insects -- 11 Injury Control -- 12 Electromagnetic Radiation -- 13 Environmental Economics -- 14 Environmental Law -- 15 Standards -- 16 Monitoring -- 17 Risk Assessment -- 18 Energy -- 19 Disasters -- 20 A Global View -- References -- Credits -- Index