- Description
- 1 online resource (5 v.) : ill.
- Additional Authors
- Nriagu, Jerome O.
- Corporate Author
- Elsevier Science (Firm)ScienceDirect (Online service)
- Notes
- "A goal of this Encyclopedia of Environmental Health is to examine the ways for conceptualizing, identifying, organizing, and addressing key environmental health problems at the local, regional, and global scales. A number of disciplines have brought powerful concepts, methodologies, and experiences to these tasks and are constantly creating new frontiers in the field. The focus of this work is to provide a critical assessment of advancements in different research fronts that will allow new theories, syntheses, and analytic structure across the growing field of environmental health. The underlying view is that although environmental health must deal with threats, it has also created a wonderful opportunity for developing new scientific paradigms that can be applied at the local, national and global levels to solve problems and meet current and emerging environmental challenges."--Preface.Includes bibliographical references and index.
