Living with the Earth, Fourth Edition: Concepts in Environmental Health Science

Shelving Guide; Environmental Science

This is a groundbreaking and innovative book now in its fourth edition. The first edition won the CHOICE award for outstanding Academic Book while editions two and three became bestsellers on their own right. This fourth edition is packed with new updates on current world events associated with environmental issues and related health concerns. The author maintains traditional concepts and merges them with new and controversial issues. The book has been revised to include up-to-date topics with and a revised Web site with updated links.

So what

• Coverage of emergency preparedness for environmental health practitioners
• Discussion of population dynamics especially with regard to overpopulation and underpopulation around the world and their respective influences on social, economic, and environmental concerns.
• The mechanisms of environmental disease, emphasizing genetic disease and its role in developmental disorders and cancer.
• Human behaviors and pollution are presented along with respect to their roles in cancer risk.
• The ever increasing issues surrounding emerging and re-emerging diseases around the earth and the introduction of an increasing number of emerging diseases.
• The growing problems of asthma and other health effects associated with air pollution.
• An exploration of the mechanisms of toxicity with special reference to the immune system and endocrine disruption.
• The ongoing issues of the creation and disposal of hazardous waste along with the controversies surrounding disposal are presented. The issues and benefits of recycling are explored.
• The use of HACCP in assuring food quality, food safety issues, and the Food Quality Protection Act are discussed.
• Numerous technical illustrations, charts, graphs, and photographs are included

What on the Web?

• Test bank and study questions giving a complete review of the concepts covered.
• Search tools for online journals and databases covering useful, up-to-date information in health and environmental topics
• Subject specific links by chapter as well as Federal, state, and organization sites with relevant information
• Downloadable PowerPoint files for each Chapter providing the instructor with ready-made presentation materials that can be modified as needed.
• Downloadable and printable test questions and answers for each chapter available to instructors

Dr. Moore has more than 25 years instruction and research at the University of Massachusetts, and more than 15 years experience in online program development and instructional design, and graphic illustration for major Universities, government organizations, and non-government organizations. He is actively engaged in instructional design, curriculum development, blended learning, E-learning, Web-based training (WBT), multimedia and CBT development, computer illustration, and project management. Currently, he is the corporate Director of Training for a company based in Madison, CT. He was selected for the UMass President’s Public Service Award for 2001 as a pioneer in the development of online learning and in promoting online teaching.

Kathleen Bell is a consultant who designs and facilitates strategy development programs and consulting skills training programs across a variety of industries. Her consultancy work began with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, where she worked on health and safety issues. She later joined the Corporate Executive Board (now Gartner) where she served as Director of Research in the Washington DC and London offices, advising heads of strategy and M&A on strategy and process improvement and designing and delivering Strategy development programmes to the Boards of major multinationals in North America, Europe, South Africa and Australia.Kathleen holds a BA in Biology from Cornell University, a Masters in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and an MBA from the Darden School of Business.