Maxwell’s Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the World – eBook

Description

Maxwell’s Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the World, 3rd Edition provides students with an engaging and accessible introduction to the complex relationship between human choices, environmental hazards, and public health. Written by Deborah Falta, this updated edition uses a unique narrative approach to explain how everyday activities and decisions can affect health and the environment at both local and global levels.

Rather than presenting environmental health as a collection of disconnected topics, the textbook examines the environmental consequences of energy production, industry, food production, occupational activities, and modern lifestyles. This approach helps students understand how environmental risks develop and how communities and individuals can respond to them.

The third edition introduces 15 new case studies addressing contemporary environmental health challenges, including plastic recycling and sustainable food production for a growing global population. A new chapter examines the social and economic factors involved in managing environmental risks, while expanded coverage explores occupational health in the context of manufacturing and industrial production.

Students also benefit from an updated full-color design featuring charts, graphs, and photographs, as well as an appendix covering the U.S. regulatory framework for environmental health. The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in Environmental Health, Public Health, Environmental Science, Health Sciences, and Public Policy.

Recognized with first place in the 2021 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Environmental Health category, this textbook offers a practical and engaging foundation for understanding the environmental factors that influence human health.

Publication information: © 2022 | 328 pages