Environmental Health by Dade W. Moeller, D. W. Moeller, D. W. Moeller

From the Publisher

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.

Journal of the American Medical Association

Environmental Health compresses a vast subject into a thorough, easily readable, 400+-page survey. Compiled as the syllabus for a course that the author taught at Harvard, this text spans a wide landscape covering subjects as diverse as toxicology, injury control, waste management, epidemiology, and disaster response....For beginning students, individuals considering career paths in environmental health, and anyone simply interested in exploring the field, Environmental Health is an excellent place to begin.

Booknews

A resource for students, public health professionals, and interested general readers, reviewing factors in environmental health such as workplace exposure, air, food, injury control, electromagnetic radiation, environmental law, monitoring, risk assessment, energy, and disaster response. An appendix lists related journals. This revised edition contains four new chapters on environmental toxicology, epidemiology, environmental law, and risk assessment, and covers drinking water and liquid wastes in separate chapters. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

Moeller (Harvard School of Public Health) has given us a broadly accessible survey of personal, indoor, outdoor, and global environmental health issues and developments. A great contribution to an increasingly important and noticed set of problems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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