Environmental Health PolicyThis book provides a multidisciplinary window onto environmental policy and its formulation., looking at the prominent position environmental health policy occupies, on both local and global agendas as old and new challenges confront the human race. |
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Contents
Overview of the book | 1 |
Section 1 Introduction | 5 |
Section 2 Assessing environmental health risks | 25 |
Section 3 Rational action and environmental health policy | 77 |
Section 4 Beyond the rational action approach | 133 |
Section 5 Other approaches | 171 |
Section 6 Making policy | 213 |
Section 7 Initiatives local to global | 243 |
Glossary | 271 |
| 277 | |
| 285 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Environmental Health Policy Understanding public health |
| Author | Ball, David |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2006 |
| ISBN | 0335218431, 9780335218431 |
| Length | 283 pages |
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