TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moore, Gary S.
AU  - Bell, Kathleen A.
TI  - Living with the Earth: Concepts in Environmental Health Science
SN  - 9781138590564
U1  - 615.902 23rd
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Boca Raton
PB  - CRC Press.
KW  - Environmental Sciences
KW  - Environmental Health
KW  - Engineering & Technology
KW  - Civil, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering
N1  - Includes Numerous technical illustrations, charts, graphs, and photographs are included along with bibliographic description and index
N2  - Coverage of emergency preparedness for environmental health practitioners. Discussion of population dynamics especially with regard to overpopulation and underpopulation around the world and their respective influences on social, economic, and environmental concerns. The mechanisms of environmental disease, emphasizing genetic disease and its role in developmental disorders and cancer. Human behaviors and pollution are presented along with respect to their roles in cancer risk. The ever increasing issues surrounding emerging and re-emerging diseases around the earth and the introduction of an increasing number of emerging diseases.
The growing problems of asthma and other health effects associated with air pollution. An exploration of the mechanisms of toxicity with special reference to the immune system and endocrine disruption. The ongoing issues of the creation and disposal of hazardous waste along with the controversies surrounding disposal are presented. The issues and benefits of recycling are explored. The use of HACCP in assuring food quality, food safety issues, and the Food Quality Protection Act are discussed
ER  -