This innovative text takes a unique approach to presenting environmental health. Rather than being organized around the traditional regulatory fields (air and water pollution, hazardous wastes, radiation, etc.), this book is structured around the things we do as individuals and societies that result in environmental health hazards. The author details the hazards of energy production, industry, food production, and the modern lifestyle, while exploring our place within the local and global community.

Unlike other texts of its kind, Understanding Environmental Health tells a connected narrative, making the text engaging and accessible to a broad range of students with a variety of scientific backgrounds.

Features:

• Offers the most concise introduction to environmental health while providing all the essential information about the classic regulatory domains and core competencies in environmental health. 
• Presents a connected narrative, with chapters on the various things we do that create environmental health hazards—living together with other species; producing energy, material goods, and food; and living in communities, from local to global.  
• Is accessible to students with a variety of scientific backgrounds; includes an early chapter on the fundamental science and methods of environmental health and offers sidebars throughout that present small bites of general science information.
• Includes an extensive glossary of over 500 terms.

Visit the Companion Website for the comprehensive resource package including:

For Instructors:                                                     For Students:
• Instructor’s Manual                                                • Flashcards
• PowerPoint Presentations                                        • Glossary
• TestBank                                                               • Weblinks
• Additional Teaching Tools