Environment & Health Books

New and Published Books

1. Environmental Health

   Indoor Exposures, Assessments and Interventions

   Edited by Theodore A. Myatt, Joseph G. Allen

   Recent advances have been made on the identification of pollutants in indoor environments, the health effects associated with indoor or personal exposures, and interventions that can be implemented by occupants to mitigate exposures. The focus of this book is on exposures that occur typically, but...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Apple Academic Press
2. Sustainability for Healthcare Management

   A Leadership Imperative

   By Carrie R. Rich, J. Knox Singleton, Seema S. Wadhwa

   Sustainability is not unique to health, but is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy values. This book challenges healthcare leaders to think through the implications of our decisions from fiscal, societal and environmental perspectives. It links health values with sustainability drivers in order...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources In Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by David Jensen, Stephen Lonergan

   Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

   When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health

   Edited by Richard Parker, Marni Sommer

   At the beginning of the twenty-first century, key public health issues and challenges have taken centre stage. They range from arsenic in drinking water to asthma among children and adults; from the re-emergence of cholera, to increasing cancer rates and other chronic diseases; from AIDS to malaria...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. Quality of Life and Public Management

   Redefining Development in the Local Environment

   By John Whitelegg

   Quality of Life and Public Management explores the possibility for a dramatic and significant improvement in quality of life for all population groups and sub-groups in the UK. Strongly evidence-based, the book draws on case study data and comparisons into local and central government structure,...

   Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
6. Measuring Wellbeing: Towards Sustainability?

   By Karen Scott

   Improving wellbeing and sustainability are central goals of government, but are they in conflict? This engaging new book reviews that question and its implications for public policy through a focus on indicators. It highlights tensions on the one hand between various constructs of wellbeing and...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Ecological Public Health

   Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

   By Geof Rayner, Tim Lang

   What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles. This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Emily Brownell

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are "environment" and "landscape," and both are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African environments often concentrate on Africans...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
9. Public Safety and Risk Assessment

   Improving Decision Making

   By David J. Ball, Laurence Ball-King

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon. Over the past decade health and safety has become a major issue of public interest. There are countless stories of health and safety...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
10. Sustainability, Midwifery and Birth

    Edited by Lorna Davies, Rea Daellenbach, Mary Kensington

    Environmental awareness and sustainability are vitally important concepts in the twenty first century and, as a low environmental impact healthcare profession, midwifery has the potential to stand as a model of excellence. This innovative volume promotes a sustainable approach to midwifery...

    Published October 7th 2010 by Routledge