Environmental and Human Health
eBook - PDF

Environmental and Human Health

Risk Management in Developing Countries

  1. 290 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Environmental and Human Health

Risk Management in Developing Countries

About this book

Many countries experience lack of harmony among economic development, environmental management and human health. As a consequence, public health, the integrity of ecosystems, and the efforts to reach environmental sustainability, have been adversely affected. The complexity, frequency and magnitude of those impacts is increasingly parallel to the t

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Yes, you can access Environmental and Human Health by Eddie N. Laboy-Nieves, Mattheus F.A. Goosen, Evens Emmanuel in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Environmental Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780415601627
eBook ISBN
9780203835951
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Environmental Science
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. List of Authors (∗) and Co-Authors
  5. Curriculum Vitae of the Editors
  6. Communicating environmental risks and the decision making process
  7. Chapter 1. Environmental and human health risk management: An overview
  8. Chapter 2. Communicating environmental risks in developing countries
  9. Chapter 3. Environmental management in Brazil: Reducing organizational risks
  10. Chapter 4. Tsunami hazards: A case study of risk management in the Caribbean Region
  11. Chapter 5. Cost-benefit analysis to enhance the risk management decision making process
  12. Chapter 6. Adjusted Genuine Savings and Human Development Index: A two dimensional indicator for sustainability
  13. Management of surface and groundwater resources
  14. Chapter 7. Management, public opinion and research on Costa Rica’s surface and groundwater resources
  15. Chapter 8. Stormwater management practices: The case of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  16. Chapter 9. Impact of surface runoff on the aquifers of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  17. Conservation of Land, Air, Water and Cultural Assets
  18. Chapter 10. Ethnoecological restoration of deforested and agrocultural tropical lands for Mesoamerica
  19. Chapter 11. Atmospheric aerosols: A case study from the Caribbean Region
  20. Chapter 12. The potential of Thillandsia sp. to monitor PAHs from automobile sources in Puerto Rico
  21. Chapter 13. Degradation of PCBs and spilled oil by bioenhancing agents
  22. Chapter 14Cryptosporidium oocyst transmission in the aquatic environment of Haiti
  23. Risk management and wastewater reuse
  24. Chapter 15. Health-related aspects of wastewater reuse in urban truck farming: A case study of Yaoundé, Cameroon
  25. Chapter 16. Application of low-cost sorbents to remove chromium from industrial wastewater discharges
  26. Chapter 17. Viability of the upflow anaerobic sludge process for risk management of wastewater treatment
  27. Glossary
  28. Back Cover