Environmental and Human Health: Risk Management in Developing Countries

ISBN-13: 9781138116696 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 290 str.

Eddie N. Laboy-Nieves;Mattheus F.A. Goosen;Evens Emmanuel

Opis

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 technological revolution, rising population, and increasing per capita consumption. The burden of the concerns about how humans inflict natural and man-made enclaves tends to rely in highly industrial societies. However, many of the world environmental alterations are been achieved by non-industrial societies.
This book examines and discusses multidisciplinary aspects of the impacts that humans had on the physical environment, the biota, and human health, focusing on the scenario of developing and under developing countries. Among the areas covered are environmental degradation, pollution, occupational health, risk management, epidemiology and toxicology.

This book will help scientists, resource managers, administrators, educators, policy makers and college students interpret that risk management and the advancement of research in sustainable development is of utmost importance for all parties involved in seeking solutions for the protection of natural and anthropogenic systems, and human health.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Environmental and human health risk management: An overview  2. Tsunami hazards  3. Groundwater resources  4. Communicating environmental risks  5. Environmental management in Brazil  6. Atmospheric aerosols 7. Thillandsia sp. for monitoring PAHs 8. Cost-benefit analysis for risk management 9. Adjusted genuine savings and human development index 10. Sorbents to remove chromium from industrial wastewater discharges 11. Degradation of PCBs and spilled oil by bioenhancing agents  12. Impact of surface runoff on aquifers  13. Stormwater management practices 14. Sludge process for risk management 15. Health-related aspects of wastewater reuse 16. Cryptosporidium oocyst transmission 17. Ethnoecological restoration of deforested and agrocultural tropical lands.