Sustainable development is now considered by many organizations and their stakeholders the model to follow. An increasing number of companies currently act and communicate based on their triple performance (i.e. economic, environmental and social). Educators and scientistsΒ can follow this example by
Environmental and Human Health: Risk Management in Developing Countries
β Scribed by Eddie N. Laboy-Nieves, Mattheus F.A. Goosen, Evens Emmanuel
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 287
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Many countries experience lack of harmony among economic development, environmental management and human health. As a consequence, public health, the integrity of ecosystems, and the efforts to reach environmental sustainability, have been adversely affected. The complexity, frequency and magnitude of those impacts is increasingly parallel to the technological revolution, rising population, and increasing per capita consumption. The burden of the concerns about how humans inflict natural and man-made enclaves tends to rely in highly industrial societies. However, many of the world environmental alterations are been achieved by non-industrial societies. This book examines and discusses multidisciplinary aspects of the impacts that humans had on the physical environment, the biota, and human health, focusing on the scenario of developing and under-developing countries. Among the areas covered are environmental degradation, pollution, occupational health, risk management, epidemiology and toxicology. This book will help scientists, resource managers, administrators, educators, policy makers and college students to interpret that risk management and the advancement of research in sustainable development is of utmost importance for all parties involved in seeking solutions for the protectionΒ of natural and anthropogenic systems, and human health.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
List of Authors and Co-Authors......Page 10
Curriculum Vitae of the Editors......Page 14
Communicating environmental risks and the decision making process......Page 16
1. Environmental and human health risk management: An overview......Page 18
2. Communicating environmental risks in developing countries......Page 28
3. Environmental management in Brazil: Reducing organizational risks......Page 44
4. Tsunami hazards: A case study of risk management in the Caribbean Region......Page 56
5. Cost-benefit analysis to enhance the risk management decision making process......Page 76
6. Adjusted Genuine Savings and Human Development Index: A two dimensional indicator for sustainability......Page 88
Management of surface and groundwater resources......Page 102
7. Management, public opinion and research on Costa Rica's surface and groundwater resources......Page 104
8. Stormwater management practices: The case of Port-au-Prince, Haiti......Page 124
9. Impact of surface runoff on the aquifers of Port-au-Prince, Haiti......Page 138
Conservation of Land, Air, Water and Cultural Assets......Page 154
10. Ethnoecological restoration of deforested and agrocultural tropical lands for Mesoamerica......Page 156
11. Atmospheric aerosols: A case study from the Caribbean Region......Page 172
12. The potential of Thillandsia sp. to monitor PAHs from automobile sources in Puerto Rico......Page 186
13. Degradation of PCBs and spilled oil by bioenhancing agents......Page 200
14. Cryptosporidium oocyst transmission in the aquatic environment of Haiti......Page 216
Risk management and wastewater reuse......Page 230
15. Health-related aspects of wastewater reuse in urban truck farming: A case study of YaoundΓ©, Cameroon......Page 232
16. Application of low-cost sorbents to remove chromium from industrial wastewater discharges......Page 250
17. Viability of the upflow anaerobic sludge process for risk management of wastewater treatment......Page 266
Glossary......Page 280
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