Imperial College Press, 2006. — 263 p. — (Air Pollution Reviews - Vol. 3). Air pollution affects populations throughout the world, having a significant impact on public health. An important source of these pollutants is the motor vehicle. In our attempt to address some of the issues within the field in this volume, it is clear that there is sufficient material to fill many...
Columbia University Press, 2007. — 356 p. The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing breast cancer incidence rate, and people of color concerned about the asthma...
New York: Marcel Dekker. – 2001. – 520 p. Industrial, agricultural, pharmacological, and lifestyle applications have increased the kinds and amounts of xenobiotic agents to which humans are exposed. A generally accepted toxicity hypothesis is that some of these agents mediate cellular injury by virtue of their ability to cause oxidative stress and subsequently trigger oxidative...
Academic Press, 1999. — 1065 p. Air Pollution and Health History Geographical, atmospheric and ground determinants of air pollution Basic Meteorology Atmospheric Chemistry Measurements of Concentrations of Air Pollutants Patterns of Air Pollution in Developed Countries Patterns of Air Pollution in Developing Countries Sources of Air Pollution Exposure Assessment Respiratory...
IGI Global, 2019. — 600 p. — (Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies). — ISBN: 978-1-522594-52-3. Due to the non-biodegradability of plastic substances, coupled with poor waste management practices, plastic pollution has become a major environmental issue within the past decade. However, the negative effects of plastic pollution are rarely opposed, or the...
4th edition. — CRC Press, 2002. — 804 p. The Handbook of Environmental Health-Pollutant Interactions in Air, Water, and Soil includes Nine Chapters on a variety of topics basically following a standard chapter outline where applicable with the exception of Chapters 8 and 9. The outline is as follows: Background and status Scientific, technological and general information...
2nd ed. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 388 p. — ISBN: 1118975863, 9781118975862 Crop protection continues to be an important component of modern farming to maintain food production to feed an expanding human population, but considerable changes have occurred in the regulation of pesticides in Europe in the last decade. The aim has been to reduce their impact on people and the...
Tokyo: 2011. - 134 p. The authors of the book emphasize the connection between environmental pollutants and human health, primarily of the child and fetus. Contamination Begins in the Womb Damage Caused by in Utero Contamination: A History Differences in Adults, Children, and Fetuses Children Are Not Small Adults Multiple Contamination from Environmental Pollutants New Thinking...
Springer, 2007. — xxxviii, 472 p. In recent years, increasing attention and resources have been brought to bear on the relationship between the environment and congenital diseases. These diseases were previously thought to be mostly due to genetic causes. Even though the importance of genes as factors in causation is accepted, environmental factors seem to be implicated just as...
Nordic Council of Ministers, 2016. — 86 p. Seventeen pollutants (particles, heavy metals, inorganic gasses and organic compounds) are for the first time analyzed in a screening of the carcinogenic risk at very high resolution and large scale in ambient air in the Nordic countries. Modelled 2010 annual mean air concentrations show no exceedances of the EU air quality values. The...
Graham & Trotman, 1985. — 348 p. Opening Speech of the ICEDIVE 84 Conference by His Royal Highness Prince Bertil of Sweden I am very pleased to be invited to open the International Conference ICEDIVE 84, dealing with medical and technical problems of diving and related underwater activities in arctic conditions. Until recent times, the arctic was considered astrange and remote...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 262 p. Many reproductive and developmental health problems are caused by exposure to chemicals that are widely dispersed in our environment. These problems include infertility, miscarriage, poor pregnancy outcomes, abnormal fetal development, early puberty, endometriosis, and diseases and cancers of reproductive organs. The compelling nature...
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