Environment and Health: Protecting our Common Future - Hardcover

K. Duncan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845641302 ISBN 13: 9781845641306

Publisher: WIT Press / Computational Mechanics, 2008

Synopsis

Environmental degradation and illness and disease prevent millions of people
in many countries from surviving and achieving their potential. This book
serves as a comprehensive guide to key environmental and health issues
confronting the planet, enumerates approaches and techniques to address
these issues, and provides real-world examples of good corporate citizenship.

Although there are a growing number of books on corporate social
responsibility (and related concepts, such as business ethics, stakeholder
theory and sustainable development), there is no volume comparable to this
one. Specifically the book addresses a range of issues that will be
invaluable to many specialists such as: organization leaders who want to
improve the environment and health of their colleagues at home and globally,
practitioners in corporate social responsibility, managers involved in
environmental, health and safety issues and finally business students who wish to contribute to the well-being of their colleagues and the health of the planet and humanity.

About this title

About the Author

Kirsty Duncan is an Associate Professor, Health Studies. Currently her work also involves helping organizations, from community groups to Fortune 500 companies, plan for a possible pandemic. She was short-listed for the 2004 Canadian Science Writers Award for her book, Hunting the 1928 Flu: One Scientist s Search for a Killer Virus and has been recognized as one of the world s leading women scientists. Previously she taught global environmental processes at Royal Roads University. She has also completed work on climate change and human health in North America for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (a joint venture of the United Nations Environmental Programme and the World Meteorological Organization).

Edition details

• Publisher: WIT Press / Computational Mechanics
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845641302
• ISBN 13: 9781845641306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192