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Heterotropic Plate Counts and Drinking-water Safety
World Health Organization 2003; US$ 45.00This text prepared by an international group of experts addresses the 'heterotrophic plate count' test which is widely used in drinking-water assessment: what it detects (and what it does not detect) its direct and indirect health significance and its use in the safety management of drinking water supplies. It includes the consensus statement... more...
Risk Assessment for Water Infrastructure Safety and Security
CRC Press 2011; US$ 119.95One of the seventeen critical infrastructures vital to the security of the United States, the water supply system remains largely unprotected from the threat of terrorism, including possible revenge by Al Qaeda over the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Recognizing and identifying prospective events of terrorism against the water infrastructure is critical... more...
Environmental Health and Racial Equity in the United States
APHA Press 2011; US$ 63.00From the "Father of Environmental Justice" comes, Environmental Health and Racial Equity, a first-rate account of events, individuals, and organizations that have shaped the environmental justice movement over the past two decades. The struggles chronicled are both instructive and inspirational to anyone who wants to make a difference. more...
Megacities and Global Health
APHA Press 2011; US$ 63.00Megacities & Global Health brings together important research on infectious diseases, environmental and occupational hazards, disaster preparedness, crowding, urban ecology, and much more. The leading experts in global medicine, public health and urban health provide analysis, commentary and case studies of emerging and established megacities. This... more...
Hyping Health Risks
Columbia University Press 2008; US$ 25.99The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless anxiety and confusion on the part of the public concerning which exposures... more...
Environmental Health and Hazard Risk Assessment
CRC Press 2012; US$ 119.95Environmental Health and Hazard Risk Assessment: Principles and Calculations explains how to evaluate and apply environmental health and hazard risk assessment calculations in a variety of real-life settings. Using a wealth of examples and case studies, the book helps readers develop both a theoretical understanding and a working knowledge of the principles... more...
Unhealthy Cities
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 35.95The purpose of this book is to show the important role that space and place plays in the health of urban residents, particularly those living in high poverty ghettos. The book brings together research and writing from a variety of disciplines to demonstrate the health costs of being poor in America?s cities. Both authors are committed to raising awareness... more...
Ecological Public Health
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 48.95What 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 return to and modernisation around ecological principles.... more...
Sprawling Cities and Our Endangered Public Health
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 55.95Sprawl is an unsustainable pattern of growth that threatens to undermine the health of communities globally. It has been a dominant mid-to-late twentieth century growth pattern in developed countries and in the twenty-first century has shown widespread signs of proliferation in India, China, and other growing countries. The World Health Organization... more...
Indoor Air Quality&Human Healt
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 165.00First published in 1985, 'Indoor Air Quality and Human Health' is a significant contribution to the field of Construction. more...









