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Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the World

Author(s): Nancy Irwin Maxwell, DSc, MA, Associate Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763793449
  • Kit     pages      © 2009
Price: International Sales $107.95 US List
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Overview

Instructor Resources: Instructor's Manual, PowerPoints, TestBank
Student Resources: Companion Website with Interactive Glossary, Flashcards, WebLinks

This text now comes packaged with a FREE Student Study Guide. This comprehensive resource includes Key Terms, Chapter Review Questions, and other resources to engage your students in learning about environmental health.

This innovative text takes a unique approach to presenting environmental health. Rather than being organized around the traditional regulatory fields (air and water pollution, hazardous wastes, radiation, etc.), this book is structured around the things we do as individuals and societies that result in environmental health hazards. The author details the hazards of energy production, industry, food production, and the modern lifestyle, while exploring our place within the local and global community.

Unlike other texts of its kind, Understanding Environmental Health tells a connected narrative, making the text engaging and accessible to a broad range of students with a variety of scientific backgrounds.

Features:

  • Offers the most concise introduction to environmental health while providing all the essential information about the classic regulatory domains and core competencies in environmental health.
  • Presents a connected narrative, with chapters on the various things we do that create environmental health hazards—living together with other species; producing energy, material goods, and food; and living in communities, from local to global. 
  • Is accessible to students with a variety of scientific backgrounds; includes an early chapter on the fundamental science and methods of environmental health and offers sidebars throughout that present small bites of general science information.
  • Includes an extensive glossary of over 500 terms.

Visit the Companion Website for the comprehensive resource package including:

For Instructors:                                                     For Students:
• Instructor’s Manual                                              • Flashcards
• PowerPoint Presentations                                 • Glossary
• TestBank                                                               • Weblinks
• Additional Teaching Tools
 

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Chapter 1: The Terrain of Environmental Health   
Chapter 2: The Science and Methods of Environmental Health   
Chapter 3: Living with Other Species   
Chapter 4: Producing Energy  
Chapter 5: Manufacturing   
Chapter 6: Producing Food   
Chapter 7: Living in the World We’ve Made   
References  
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Nancy Irwin Maxwell, DSc, MA-Associate Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

Nancy Irwin Maxwell is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health.

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  • "This book fills an important niche for introductory environmental health science courses with a focus on the key public health aspects of the topic. While it is intended for graduate-level public health students, the narrative approach to providing content in a relatively clear and nontechnical manner makes this text also appropriate, in my judgment, for undergraduate-level courses with a focus on the public health aspects of environmental science or for the environmental health component of an introductory public health course."

    —Ronald H. White, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (American Journal of Epidemiology Book Review, February 2009)
     

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