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Planning for the protection of human health from the potential impacts of global environmental changes, such as climate change, requires a greatly improved understanding of the disease inducing mechanisms involved, possible synergetic effects, and the vulnerability of populations.An important aspect is the development of theoretical and conceptual methods for the assessment of the health impact of global environmental changes. This book addresses the concepts and methods needed to analyse and understand this complex issue, and will be of great value to researchers and graduate students. ... Read more

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A COMPREHENSIVE TEXTBOOK AND REFERENCE FOR QUANTITATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ANALYSIS FOR BOTH CHEMICAL AND RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINANTS

Environmental risk analysis is complex and interdisciplinary; this book explains the fundamental concepts and analytical methods in each essential discipline. With an emphasis on concepts and applications of quantitative tools plus coverage of analysis of both chemical and radioactive contaminants, this is a comprehensive resource.

After an introduction and an overview of the basics of environmental modeling, the book covers key elements in environmental risk analysis methodology, including:

• Release assessment and source characterization
• Migration of contaminants in various media, including surface water, groundwater, the atmosphere, and the food chain
• Exposure assessment
• Basic human toxicology and dose-response
• Risk characterization, including dose-response modeling and analysis
• Risk management process and methods
• Risk communication and public participation

This reference also relates risk analysis to current environmental laws and regulations. An ideal textbook for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates in various engineering and quantitative science disciplines, especially civil and environmental engineering, it is also a great reference for practitioners in industry, environmental consulting firms, and regulatory agencies. ... Read more

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Excellent book for both teachers and students
This is an excellent book for anyone interested in learning or teaching about the field of environmental risk analysis.It covers a broad range of issues in a manner that is approachable for the non-specialist while also including material that engages the interest of the specialist.The book is well-written and the authors are especially adept at explaining complex problems in a way that is easy to understand.I used an early draft of the book in a class on the topic and found it to be an excellent resource that I wholeheartedly recommend. ... Read more

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Environmental Health: Ecological Perspectives is intended as a health text that covers environmental health from various angles.The book focuses on legislation issues, environmental history, biological perspectives, and what we can do to improve our environment's health. ... Read more

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book was in excellent condition
book was in excelent condition as well as arriving in a timely fashion, very content. like the other review the information in the book could have been better, but dont care because this book was required by my class and was easy to read.

Environmental Health...sans Science
I should not write the following, as I want to sell my copy, but here it goes: this book is, seemingly, written for a general "non-science" audience, or for (early) high school students. CERTAINLY, it is not appropriate for a university course. It is overtly simplified and unlike many books written for a general audience (i.e., science journalism), the prose in the book is horribly dull. EXTREMELY limited for a college public health course.
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In April 2000 researchers from around the world met in Lexington, Kentucky to bring together the very latest information on the chemistry and biological effects of the environmental pollutants known as Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs). The result is a comprehensive and extensive treatment of the very latest findings on all significant subjects relating to PCBs and their health risks. The thorough introduction and sixty-two scientific papers presented here represent the most up-to-date research by scientists in government, private industry, and academia. ... Read more

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Really Good Reference
Book is outstanding reference.Has well developed bibliography for further reading.Outstanding for go-to text for citations in workers compensation cases or other work in occupational and environmental medicine.

A standard in Occup & Envir Med
The most clinical and diagnostic of the major works in Occupational & Environmental Medicine. The text includes all the usual (and necessary) approaches to cover this topic: - disease by organ system - disease by chemical / physical cause - disease by industry / business sector

Includes necessary components on ethics and advocacy. Not as program-focussed as other works which seem designed to support medical directors more than diagnostic clinicians. ... Read more

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Many reproductive and developmental health problems are caused by exposure to chemicals that are widely dispersed in our environment. These problems include infertility, miscarriage, poor pregnancy outcomes, abnormal fetal development, early puberty, endometriosis, and diseases and cancers of reproductive organs. The compelling nature of the collective science has resulted in recognition of a new field of environmental reproductive health. Focusing on exposures to environmental contaminants, particularly during critical periods in development and their potential effects on all aspects of future reproductive life-course, this book provides the first comprehensive source of information bringing together the arguments that are spread out among various scientific disciplines in environmental health, clinical and public health fields. It provides a review of the science in key areas of the relationship between environmental contaminants and reproductive health outcomes, and recommendations on efforts toward prevention in clinical care and public policy. ... Read more

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Written by experts in the field, this important book provides an introduction to current risk assessment practices and procedures and explores the intrinsic complexities, challenges, and controversies associated with analysis of environmental health risks.

Environmental Health Risk Assessment for Public Health offers 27 substantial chapters on risk-related topics that include:

• What Is Risk and Why Study Risk Assessment
• The Risk Assessment–Risk Management Paradigm
• Risk Assessment and Regulatory Decision-Making in Environmental Health
• Toxicological Basis of Risk Assessment
• The Application of PBPK Modeling to Risk Assessment
• Probabilistic Models to Characterize Aggregate and Cumulative Risk
• Molecular Basis of Risk Assessment
• Comparative Risk Assessment
• Occupational Risk
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The last sixty years witnessed an unprecedented expansion of international trade. The system created by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and later by the World Trade Organization (WTO) has proved to be an efficient instrument for the elimination of trade and tariff barriers. This process coincided with increased national regulatory controls, which were particularly visible in the area of risk regulation. Governments, responding to the demands of their domestic constituencies, have adopted a wide range of regulatory measures aimed at protecting the environment and human health. Although, for the most part, the new regulatory initiatives served legitimate objectives, it has also turned out that internal measures might become an attractive vehicle for protectionism, taking the place that was traditionally occupied by tariff barriers. Regulating Health and Environmental Risks under the WTO Law examines the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement). In which it is an attempt by the international community to limit possible abuses while assuring WTO Members of an extensive margin of regulatory discretion.

The central problem that the book tackles is whether the system established by the SPS Agreement can address the existing and potential challenges of a new interdependent world. In answering this question, the author provides a comprehensive and critical examination of the substantive provisions of the Agreement and corresponding case law. In this context, the book particularly focuses on two issues: the consistency in the interpretation of the SPS Agreement and the appropriateness of its various requirements. This analysis leads the author to conclude that despite some interpretative failures of SPS case law, the system established by the SPS Agreement seems to provide an effective solution for the supervision of domestic SPS measures. ... Read more

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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.

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Environmental Health Book
Book came in timely matter and was in great shape. Thank you

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An important and highly actionable blueprint for optimum workplace safety

Health and safety management is an ongoing concern in today's workplace. Effective Environmental, Health, and Safety Management Using the Team Approach provides today's safety professionals with an excellent resource for protecting their organizations' most important resource-their employees. The author, a seasoned health and safety professional, provides a blueprint for installing a system that's been proven to reduce illness and injury on any job, in any industry, with a simple, logical approach that compares safety management to production and quality control-issues today's managers readily understand.

The system uses a team approach to get every level of an organization involved in the process of managing safety issues, with the ultimate goal being the development of a safety culture in which every employee has a personal interest in protecting their lives, their property, and their environment.

An ideal resource for industry managers as well as graduate-level courses in workplace safety and health, this text offers such special features as:
* Important checklists, including OSHA-required training, OSHA-required inspections, and OSHA-required postings and labeling
* Numerous health and safety resources, Web site addresses, and contact information for related organizations
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Continuing in the tradition of its bestselling predecessor, the Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health, Second Edition brings together world-class editors and contributors who have been at the forefront of ecosystem health assessment research for decades, to provide a sound approach to environmental management and sustainable development.

Significantly updated and expanded, this authoritative resource details a proven framework for selecting, evaluating, and validating ecological indicators for ecosystem health assessment. It guides readers through the application of this framework to a wide range of ecosystems, including wetlands, estuaries, coastal zones, lakes, forests, marine ecosystems, lagoons, agricultural systems, landscapes, and rivers. The text synthesizes material from a variety of books, journals, and private research, to consider biodiversity, energy needs, ecological economics, and natural capital in the measurement of ecological health.

Organized for ease of reference, the first part of the handbook provides the required theoretical background. It presents a complete overview of all relevant ecological indicators—including thermodynamics, resilience estimates, exergy, and emergy indicators. The second part focuses on how to effectively apply the ecological indicators to a number of important ecosystems. It includes many examples and case studies that clearly illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of each method for specific applications.

Offering first-hand insight and practical guidance from practitioners in the field, this complete resource supplies the tools and the well-rounded understanding required to diagnose the health of virtually any ecosystem with much improved accuracy.

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useful book for all ecologists
This book contains all you must know to study an ecosystem or ecology of populations. ... Read more

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Project Management is a critical skill for all EH&S professionals, especially in this time of decreased resources and staff. Learn the project management skills you need to survive in the 21st Century. This new book presents an easy-to-use, 18-step approach for effective project management. The three phases of project management (concepts and approvals, planning and analysis, and project implementation) are each divided into six steps. They are explained in detail with case studies to illustrate the best tools to use and the pitfalls to avoid.

With this helpful, "how-to" book, you'll learn to identify project objectives and constraints, establish elements and resource needs, obtain approval to proceed, create project schedules, deploy resources and assign jobs and tasks, identify potential problems and solutions, find ways to make up for lost time, begin implementation, monitor and measure progress, evaluate and modify plans, complete the project and document it, and much more. ... Read more

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Univ. of Arizona, Tucson. A collection of recent research on environmental health and toxic exposures, designed to educate and aid public health clinicians and decision makers. Covers individual organs and systems, and prevention and safety issues. Revised edition of Hazardous Materials Toxicology, c1992. DNLM: Hazardous Substances--toxicity. ... Read more

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A wealth of information.
I have started to read this text to prepair for a board exam in Occupational Medicine.The first 14 chapters cover a huge amount of information that serves as the basis for this field of medicine.This will be a big help for anyone looking for an organized review of this material.Section V examines specific toxins in detail and just about anything you would need to know about most chemicals is here.This text is vital for health professionals in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.It would also be very helpful to have as a reference for a terrorist attack that deals with radiation or the spread of toxic materials.It is the rare text that I WILL read from cover to cover, instead of using it to look up selected items.Highly recommended. ... Read more

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This volume distills what is known about environmental health during an emergency or disaster. It draws on results from the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, and on experience with sustainable development between the two Earth Summits, in Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg. It is intended for practitioners, as well as for policy-makers and researchers, and thus covers both general and technical aspects of environmental health. In Part I of this volume, a conceptual framework is presented for understanding environmental health issues in the context of disaster management. The framework covers the entire disaster-management cycle, from preparedness and warning, to recovery and prevention. Guidelines are also suggested for planning and reducing the effects of extreme events on public health, and practical guidance is given in organizational and logistical matters. Throughout, the need for flexibility and innovation at the local level is emphasized, combined with solid advance planning. There is also a focus on the vulnerability of populations during an emergency or disaster, with the implication that such people have capacities and local knowledge that should be integrated into efforts to secure both environment and development against extreme events. The creative potential of balancing "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches is emphasized in chapters on health promotion and community participation, and on human resources. Part II of this book is a detailed compendium of best practices and strategies for risk reduction and response in the fields of: · Shelter and emergency settlements; · Water supply; · Sanitation; · Food safety; · Vector and pest control; · Control of communicable diseases and prevention of epidemics; · Chemical incidents; · Radiation emergencies; · Mortuary service and handling of the dead; · Health promotion and community participation; and · Human resources. This book will be useful in planning for, responding to, and recovering from the movements of displaced persons and refugees in humanitarian crises, as well as the floods, storms, earthquakes and other extreme events that could confront health workers in the first decade of the 21st century. Given trends in the 1990s, it is unlikely that humanity has seen the last of these challenges. ... Read more

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Bringing together a wide range of environmental issues that have been debated since the mid-1950s, this book views these issues as a result of changes in values in American society since World War II.The author explores such substantive issues as pollution, natural lands, chemical carcinogens, and population-resources balances.He examines the politics of environmental science, economic analysis, planning, and management, and traces the impact of environmental issues on local, state, and federal government.The book explores political controversy to shed light on the working of political institutions and to establish their relationship to social change. ... Read more

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The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless aanxiety and confusion on the part of the public concerning which exposures have important effects on health and which are likely to have minimal or no effect.

Kabat approaches health scares as "social facts" and shows that a variety of factors can contribute to the inflating of a hazard. These include skewed reporting by the media, but also, surprisingly, the actions of researchers who may emphasize certain findings while ignoring others; regulatory and health agencies eager to show their responsiveness to the health concerns of the public; and politicians and advocates with a stake in a particular outcome.

By means of four case studies, Kabat demonstrates how a powerful confluence of interests can lead to overstating or distorting the scientific evidence. He considers the health risks of pollutants such as DDT as a cause of breast cancer, electromagnetic fields from power lines, radon within residences, and secondhand tobacco smoke. Tracing the trajectory of each of these hazards from its initial emergence to the present, Kabat shows how publication of more rigorous studies and critical assessments ultimately help put hazards in perspective.

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Read both sides
Dr. Kabat argues that out of control regulation-zealot scientists twist the results of epidemiology studies to show that dangers exist where there are none.You should be aware that Dr. Kabat has been a highly paid consultant (over a period of many years) for industries using and manufacturing the allegedly dangerous chemicals mentioned in this book.These companies (they include Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, and the American Tobacco Company)paid him handsomely to do research that would show that their products were safe.He is well known in scientific circles as a scientist for hire and his own studies are frequently criticized as horribly designed or even specifically designed to get the answers he is looking for.This information is all public record, and I suggest that if you are curious, you should look it up to verify that I am telling the truth.

I do not feel that you should chose not to read this book because of Kabat's obvious conflict of interest, however.I do recommend that you read it alongside either "Bending Science" or "Doubt is their Product."

Beautifully done!
Dr. Kabat's analysis of how the media presents scientific studies and how the public is easily fooled into fear by perceptions that the "cause of the day" represents a real and imminent threat to their lives is beautifully done.

Dr. Kabat avoids the easy road of political polemic and presents his work in a style that's rigorous and above attack.I spend an inordinate amount of time researching current news and opinions regarding one of the subjects he treats (the "secondhand smoke scare" issue) and have observed that the critics who might normally be expected to attack a work like this are simply dead silent: they have no substantive criticisms to offer and the style of his work doesn't lend itself well to simple silly mudslinging.And while he treats each of several different problems independently within their own sections of the book, he does a beautiful job of couching those analyses within a larger themed structure that draws a compelling picture of a need for a wide reassessment of how scientific research is done and presented to the public in today's world of headline-hungry media.

The approach and style is more formal than some other books in the same area (My own work, while sticking tightly to a high standard of accuracy, tends to be a bit more polemic than Kabat's.) and the font size could have been just a bit larger (Hey, I'm being picky here, but once you get over 40 or so you appreciate bigger fonts!) but the content is absolutely stellar and I have no hesitation at all in giving both the book and Dr. Kabat a five star review.It's difficult for a scientist or researcher in today's competitive grant-seeking market to step outside the "popular" approach to research that simply accepts the strictures of rubber stamping the politically correct views that control the pursestrings, but Kabat evidently has more integrity than most who are out there and as you read "Hyping..." I think you'll agree he has what it takes to back up his stand.

It's just sad that there aren't more professionals with similar courage.

Michael J. McFadden
Author of Dissecting Antismokers' Brains

an honest epidemiologist
In a dispassionate and painstaking way, Kabat sheds light on four health scares: radon, electromagnetic fields from power lines, DDT as a cause of breast cancer, and second-hand tobacco smoke.If epidemiologists are to contribute useful insights, they need to be mindful of weaknesses in evidence. Kabat quotes a distinguished pioneer of identifying risks associated with cigarettes, Sir Richard Peto: "epidemiology is so beautiful and provides such an important perspective on human life and death, but an incredible amount of rubbish is published." After hyping by journalists, rubbish can be given undue credibility by governments eager to respond to public concerns or by self-interested politicians and advocates.John Ioannadis: "In the past, we had few research findings, while currently we have too many research findings.Therefore, getting rid of tentative but wrong research findings should become at least as important as finding new ones."Kabat supports weighing evidence in a critically-minded, inter-disciplinary way.The only way to overcome misinformation is via stronger science.
Chapter 2 overviews the field of epidemiology.Kabat mentions examples of valuable achievements: cholera as a water-borne disease; smoking and cancers; alcohol and cancers; risk factors for heart disease; estrogen, progesterone and breast cancer; sleep position and sudden infant death syndrome; solar radiation and skin cancer; hepatitis b and liver cancer. Cholera was a clear cause, a problem amenable to investigation by mapping victims and water supplies.Nowadays, in contrast, some investigate modest health effects by looking at unlikely risk factors (a few chemical exposures within the myriad that we humans routinely encounter, needles in haystacks).
Kabat readably integrates narrow articles into an understandable big picture. Yale physicist William R. Bennett (pioneer of gas lasers that serve us via grocery store scanners and compact disks) calculated a barefoot railroad worker standing on wet tracks bearing electric current would receive a dose orders of magnitude lower than fields normally inside our bodies.New England Journal of Medicine: "all these epidemiological studies have been conducted in pursuit of a cause of cancer for which there is no plausible biologic basis."Kabat: "it is hard to escape the impression that the reluctance of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences working group to close the door on the possibility of electromagnetic force as a cause of leukemia had more to do with its members' stake in this area of research than with scientific rigor." Tunnel vision kept epidemiologists focused on their studies "to the exclusion of fundamental insights about the phenomenon whose effects they were investigating." Epidemiology should assist other disciplines, not myopically disregard them.
It is when health scares are at their most contentious that society is in most need of scientists willing to look rigorously and honestly at a topic, without succumbing to prevailing winds of fashion. Without an unswerving commitment to integrity, science is reduced to science fiction and ill-serves the public good.
Kabat offers worthy lessons to epidemiologists who aspire to serve via honest practice.Well done.

Truthful epidemiology is not always politically correct
Kabat's book should be required reading for all public health graduate students and single-issue health activists. From the office of the Surgeon General to city hall, advocacy has frequently supplanted sound science in the service of "good public health policy". The hallmark of advocacy triumphing over science is a selective and result oriented use of data, starting with the institutions that fund the studies. It is currently heresy to challenge the science behind ETS research and regulation. You cannot get a study approved that challenges the validity of the questionnaires and other proxy measures used to characterize ETS exposure, or openly seeks to challenge inadequate measures of bias and confounding. As a consequence, a mountain of research money is being spent piling on more biased studies conducted by advocates. It's not a conspiracy. It is what political correctness does to public health. We need more public health heretics like Kabat.

Artificial Hyping of Risks
Professor Kabat does an excellent job in describing how a combination of zealous regulators, activists, and media can combine to magnify "alarming" results of preliminary, usually inadequate or poorly done studies.Once these headlines are in the public psyche, it can take years, even decades, of further, expensive studies to demonstrate the early alarms were false.Meanwhile, many are scared, and billions of dollars are spent to "fix" or "avoid" the so-called problem.

Four examples are explored in detail, complete with literature references.They are:a) environmental chemicals can cause breast cancer, b) electromagnetic fields (mostly from power lines) can cause various cancers, c)radon gas in homes can cause lung cancer, and d)the (lack of)effects of second-hand smoke.The discussions are thorough and convincing.In addition, Professor Kabat has a chapter describing the science of epidemiology, and points out the usefulness as well as the weakness of the technique.

This is an excellent read for both the layman and the professional in the field. ... Read more

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This classic, definitive reference work for all those involved in environmental health is now available in its 19th edition. Significant changes include those made to chapters on food safety and hygiene, environmental protection, the organisation and management of environmental health in the UK, port health, and waste management. New chapters have been added on health development, an introduction to health and housing, contaminated land, and environmental health in emergency planning, as well as a new glossary of abbreviations and acronyms. New material on training and standards, IT, practical risk assessment, and investigatory powers is also included. Each chapter reflects the wider background against which the subjects must be studied and the new concepts and approaches that have emerged over the past few years. ... Read more

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Exellent reference book for the career of an EHO
Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health is a consice guide to the career of Environmental Health, and provides an exellent tool for any Enviromental Health Officer. The handbook covers the main areas of Environmental health, and is useful as a all round guide of the career. Clay's is a good study guide, and reference guide for students studying Environmental Health ,and would be an investment to any student as it acts as a good bookcase filled to aid newly qualified students, and when not using it , it acts as a wonderful doorstop. Clay's handbook of Environmental Health is a very good basebook and is very useful to the new EHO starting out in their career. ... Read more