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Informationen zum Autor DAVID O. CARPENTER is a public health physician. His research focuses on human diseases resulting from exposure to environmental contaminants. Following positions at the National Institute of Mental Health and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Dr. Carpenter joined the New York State Department of Health as Director of the Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research. He helped create and became the first Dean of the School of Public Health, a collaborative endeavor of the University at Albany and the New York State Department of Health. Upon stepping down as Dean, Dr. Carpenter founded the Institute for Health and the Environment. In 2011, the Institute was named a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization in Environmental Health. Klappentext This volume addresses issues related to the threats to human health from exposure to environmental pollutants in the Pacific Region, including how to reduce the production of such pollutants and remove or destroy them when they are produced. It specifically explores how to monitor levels of exposure in human populations and how to evaluate the health consequences of these exposures. Chapters explore the relationships between air quality and asthma, environmental contamination and breast cancer, mercury and neurobehavioral problems, and present information on new technologies for hazardous substance remediation.NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas.ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit www.nyas.org/membership/main.asp for more information about becoming a member. Zusammenfassung This volume addresses issues related to the threats to human health from exposure to environmental pollutants in the Pacific Region, including how to reduce the production of such pollutants and remove or destroy them when they are produced. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: David O. Carpenter. Introduction: Environment and Health in the 21st Century: Challenges and Solutions: Jill Holdren, Shu Tao, and David O. Carpenter. Part I: Policy: . 1. Asia's Changing Role in Global Climate Change: Toufiq A. Siddiqi. 2. Comparative Environmental Health Assessments: A Brief Introduction and Application in China: Kirk R. Smith. 3. Strategies for Addressing Global Environmental Health Concerns: William A. Suk and E. Ann Davis. 4. The Developmental Impact of the Financed Environmental Projects of the Development Bank of the Philippines in the Promotion of Equity and Sustainable Development: Noli B. Lucero. 5. Aquaculture Feed and Food Safety: The Role of FAO and Codex Alimentarius: Albert G. J. Tacon and Marc Metian. Part II: Water and Weather: . 6. Investigating Water Pollution of the Dareh Morad Beik River in the Hamadan District, Iran: Mahdi Reyahi Khoram and Minoo Nafea. 7. Influence of BOD Degradation Patterns on Water Quality Modeling for Rivers Running through Urban Area: Chihhao Fan and Wei-Shen Wang. 8. Research on the Meteorological Conditions and its Related Diseases in Hefei, China: Xiaohong ChenQiping Cao, Chengxiao Liu, and Chunsheng Xu. Part III: Organic Pollutants: . 9. Levels of Pesticides and PCBs in selected homes in Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Thailand: Prapat Pentamwa and Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh. 10. Pops Hotspot: Soil Contamination Due To a Demolished DDT (POP) Factory, Nowshera (NWFP) Pakistan: Mahmood A. Khwaja. 11. Monitoring of DNA Damage in Exposed Individuals to Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Ecuador: César Paz-y-Miño, Andrés López-Cortés, ...
