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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tables, figures, and exhibits -- Editor -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Howard Frumkin -- Part 1: Methods And Paradigms -- 1: Ecology and environmental health / Bruce Wilcox and Holly Jessop -- 2: Toxicology / Jason R Richardson and Gary W Miller -- 3: Environmental and occupational epidemiology / Kyle Steenland and Christine Moe -- 4: Exposure assessment, industrial hygiene, and environmental management / P Barry Ryan -- 5: Environmental psychology / Daniel Stokols and Chip Clitheroe -- 6: Genetics and environmental health / Samuel H Wilson and William A Suk -- 7: Environmental health ethics / Andrew Jameton -- 8: Environmental justice / Charles Lee -- Part 2: Environmental Health On The Global Scale -- 9: Population pressure / Don Hinrichsen -- 10: Climate change / Jonathan A Patz -- 11: Developing nations / Jerome Nriagu, Jaymie Meliker, and Markey Johnson -- Part 3: Environmental Health On The Regional Scale -- 12: Air pollution / Michelle L Bell and Jonathan M Samet -- 13: Energy production / Jeremy J Hess -- 14: Healthy communities / Sarah K Heaton, John M Balbus, James W Keck, and Andrew L Dannenberg -- 15: Water and health / Tim Ford -- Part 4: Environmental Health On The Local Scale -- 16: Solid and hazardous waste / Sven Rodenbeck, Kenneth Orloff, and Henry Falk -- 17: Pest control and pesticides / Mark G Robson, George C Hamilton, and Wattasit Siriwong -- 18: Food safety / David McSwane -- 19: Healthy buildings / Howard Frumkin -- 20: Workplace health and safety / Melissa Perry and Howard Hu -- 21: Radiation / Arthur C Upton -- 22: Injuries / Jeremy J Hess and Junaid A Razzak -- 23: Environmental disasters / Mark E Keim -- 24: Nature contact / Howard Frumkin -- 25: Children / Maida P Galvez, Joel Forman, and Philip J Landrigan -- Part 5: Practice Of Environmental Health -- 26: Prevention in environmental health / Lynn R Goldman -- 27: Environmental health practice / Sarah Kotchian and Robert J Laumbach -- 28: Geographic information systems / Lance A Waller -- 29: Risk assessment / Scott Bartell -- 30: Environmental health policy / A Stanley Meiburg -- 31: Risk communication / Vincent T Covello -- 32: Legal remedies / Douglas A Henderson -- Index.

From the Publisher: 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, key points, and discussion questions.