Green Health - An A-To-Z Guide

Klappentext Green Health: An A-to-Z Guide examines the green movement within the contexts of personal health and the healthcare industry, focusing on consumer lifestyles and how they affect resource conservation, pollution prevention, and environmental management. The scope of the title involves the societal goals of protecting human health and reducing the ecological footprint of healthcare. With approximately 150 signed entries written from global viewpoints by university professors and experts, Green Health: An A-to-Z Guide explores topics ranging from ecologically sustainable pharmaceuticals to the health risks of fossil fuels, biological stressors, the precautionary principle and wellness, organic food and health, hazardous waste, drinking water, the greening of healthcare, and more. Vivid photographs, searchable hyperlinks, numerous cross references, an extensive resource guide, and a clear, accessible writing style make the Green Society volumes ideal for classroom use as well as for research. Zusammenfassung Exploring topics ranging from organic food and health to hazardous waste! 150 articles provide an outstanding reference source examining the green movement within the contexts of personal health and the healthcare industry.

Product details

• Authors: Oladele Ogunseitan, Ogunseitan Oladele
• Assisted by: Oladele Ogunseitan (Editor), Ogunseitan Oladele (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2011
• EAN: 9781412996884
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-9688-4
• No. of pages: 592
• Series: The Sage Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future; Sage Reference Series on Green; The SAGE Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future-Series Editor: Paul Robbins; Sage Reference Series on Green; The SAGE Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future-Series Editor: Paul Robbins
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Reference, The environment, Reference works, Science / Environmental Science, Health systems & services, Health systems and services