Environmental Justice

The bestselling environmental health text, this book is a comprehensive introduction to the subject, and a contemporary, authoritative text for students of public health, environmental health, preventive medicine, community health, and environmental studies.

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This book expounds the three main types of environmental pollution--air, water, and land--and their effects on human health.

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Essentials of Environmental Health is a clear and comprehensive study of the major topics of environmental health.

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In this book the authors examine the contribution of social scientists to the topics of health and environment.

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This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial disasters, the consequent contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent social impacts, including adverse health effects, deaths and property destruction, psychosocial problems, and community disruption. the health effects and environmental justice struggles around the globe.

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An analysis of how local knowledge, based on the first-hand experience of community members, can strengthen science in environmental health decision making; with four case studies from a Brooklyn neighborhood.

Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life.

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