Environmental Health

Updated bestselling environmental health text spanning planetary to community to molecular scales

The environmental health field has shifted dramatically in recent years with the rise of planetary health, One Health, and ecohealth as disciplines, evolving climate change evidence, and technology advances ranging from gene sequencing to chemical measurement to big data analytics. Environmental Health: From Global to Local, now in its Fourth Edition, addresses these developments with restructured content and additional chapters written by new, diverse contributors.

This edition features enhanced coverage of exposure assessment and control strategies informed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and enhanced coverage of the vulnerable populations chapter. The book also includes chapters on Environmental Justice and on specific groups including children, seniors, and people with disabilities. New chapters on the economics of environmental health and on biodiversity reflect evolving disciplinary priorities and current research frontiers.

Readers will also find:

• A dedicated chapter on faith traditions, including Traditional Ecological Knowledge and non-Western perspectives on human-environment relationships
• Thorough coverage of air, water, food, occupational health, radiation, chemical and physical hazards and environmental disasters
• Thorough coverage of environmental strategies for promoting health such as community design and contact with nature
• Hands-on exercises designed for online learning and flipped classroom formats supporting contemporary pedagogical approaches in health sciences
• Eighteen “tox boxes” providing up-to-date information on hazardous chemical exposures

Designed for faculty and students in public and environmental health and environmental studies, this Fourth Edition provides the depth and currency needed to navigate a rapidly evolving field.