Living with the Earth: Concepts in Environmental Health Science - Hardcover

Moore, Gary S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849379989 ISBN 13: 9780849379987

Publisher: CRC Press, 2007

Synopsis

Includes all the bells and whistles you and your students have come to expect

It’s hard to imagine a book more innovative and groundbreaking than Living with the Earth: Concepts in Environmental Health Science, Third Edition. The first edition won the CHOICE award for Outstanding Academic Book and both previous editions became bestsellers in their own right.

See what’s new and updated coverage includes:

• Emergency preparedness for environmental health practitioners including a discussion on their roles and operations
• Population dynamics, various cultural philosophies regarding overpopulation, and underpopulation in the developed nations
• Mechanisms of environmental disease with emphasis on genetic disease and developmental disorders
• Alternative to chemical pest control
• Genetic basis of cancer
• The growing problems of asthma and air pollutants as well as newly emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
• An exploration of the mechanisms of toxicity, with special reference to the immune system and endocrine disruption
• Hazardous waste treatment, use, and recycling
• HACCP and assuring food quality, food safety issues, and Food Quality Protection Act
• Risk assessment and risk management principles
• A discussion in the change in directions in regulatory compliance
• Technical illustrations, charts, graphs, and photographs that improve learning and simplify concepts

What’s on the Web:

• Test bank and study questions
• Microsoft PowerPoint presentation slides in digital format
• Study guides with detailed notes, color figures, and tables
• Printable sample questions and answers for each chapter
• Search tools for online journals and databases covering useful, up-to-date information

Incorporates traditional concepts with new, emerging, and controversial issues

Always on the forefront of new ideas and new technology, the book includes up-to-date topics and information enhanced by Web features that make the book easy to use for professor and students alike.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Filled with more than 280 richly detailed graphs, charts, figures, and photographs, and illustrations continually updated via a correlating web-site, this book is a "living" environmental health book with a technological edge. Research the latest information on emerging diseases, population issues, environmental illnesses, and food safety. Take a walk through the rain forest, visit NASA's International Space Station, or discover other web links to the most recent environmental health topics through the author's accompanying web site. This web-enhanced book is a valuable tool for researchers and professionals in the fields of Environmental Science, Environmental Health, Public Health, Environmental Engineering, Infectious Diseases, and more. It is also indispensable for professors, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as environmentally active citizens. Living With the Earth, remarkable both in it's content and it's ability to stay updated through the web-site, is essential for today's ever expanding technological world.

From the Back Cover:

Living with the Earth: Concepts in Environmental Health Science- A Web-Enhanced Book incorporates traditional concepts in environmental and health science with new, emerging, and controversial issues associated with environmental threats to human health and ecology. Opposing scientific views on major issues such as global warming, overpopulation, the causes of cancer, endocrine disrupters, and many other issues are presented with a balanced and objective view. The book has a technological edge because it is web-enhanced - with a website kept current by the author - making it a "living" environmental health book.

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0849379989
• ISBN 13: 9780849379987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 632