Living with the Earth: Concepts in Environmental Health Science - Hardcover

Moore, Gary S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849379989 ISBN 13: 9780849379987

Publisher: CRC Press, 2007

Synopsis

Includes all the bells and whistles you and your students have come to expect

It’s hard to imagine a book more innovative and groundbreaking than Living with the Earth: Concepts in Environmental Health Science, Third Edition. The first edition won the CHOICE award for Outstanding Academic Book and both previous editions became bestsellers in their own right.

See what’s new and updated coverage includes:

• Emergency preparedness for environmental health practitioners including a discussion on their roles and operations
• Population dynamics, various cultural philosophies regarding overpopulation, and underpopulation in the developed nations
• Mechanisms of environmental disease with emphasis on genetic disease and developmental disorders
• Alternative to chemical pest control
• Genetic basis of cancer
• The growing problems of asthma and air pollutants as well as newly emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
• An exploration of the mechanisms of toxicity, with special reference to the immune system and endocrine disruption
• Hazardous waste treatment, use, and recycling
• HACCP and assuring food quality, food safety issues, and Food Quality Protection Act
• Risk assessment and risk management principles
• A discussion in the change in directions in regulatory compliance
• Technical illustrations, charts, graphs, and photographs that improve learning and simplify concepts

What’s on the Web:

• Test bank and study questions
• Microsoft PowerPoint presentation slides in digital format
• Study guides with detailed notes, color figures, and tables
• Printable sample questions and answers for each chapter
• Search tools for online journals and databases covering useful, up-to-date information

Incorporates traditional concepts with new, emerging, and controversial issues

Always on the forefront of new ideas and new technology, the book includes up-to-date topics and information enhanced by Web features that make the book easy to use for professor and students alike.

About this title

Review:

..."Comprehensive, thorough and exceptionally well organizedfrom every aspect Living with the Earth is the perfect book on its subject, not only for the college student, who will be motivated and intellectually challenged by its content, but for any person with an interest in the earth and its ecology and environment and how that shapes and impacts our lives..." -Robert L. Herbst, former Assistant secretary and Acting Secretary U.S. Department of Interior "Moore offers Web-based supporting informationThis technique opens up a state-of-the-art approach to learning with both supporting information, rich graphics, and links to many other Web sites. The premier work on environmental health." - M. Gochfeld, Robert Wood Johnson Medical Review of the second edition "a textbook that really integrates a lot of disciplines into a useful, cohesive unit. The author, a well-known Environmental Health Professor at the University of Massachusetts, has developed this book based on many years of teachingHis first edition of this book was chosen as a Choice Academic book in 1999. I was surprised to find a book that was so seamless without a lot of overlap among the chapters. A strength of this book is a related Web site that has a lot of useful supplemental material that reinforces the main concepts" - Library News for Zoos and Aquariums, June 2002" a comprehensive and well-illustrated text that performs the function of a very good 'handbook' on environmental health. It would make an excellent basic reference for students and provided practitioners with an extremely useful and up-to-date desk reference for core environmental health issues." - Environmental Health, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2003

Synopsis:

With a balanced presentation of views, this book incorporates traditional concepts of environmental health with new controversies regarding environmental threats to human health. This edition also features new chapters on emerging diseases and emergency preparedness, including the significant reasons for the emergence of these diseases and the main etiological agents related to them.

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0849379989
• ISBN 13: 9780849379987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 632