Rom Environmental Policy and Public Health

Air Pollution, Global Climate Change, and Wilderness
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-09564-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Public Health/Enviromental Health NY

This textbook provides an overview of the major environmentalpolicy issues, past and present, and explains the interplay amonglaw, science, and advocacy as related to environmental policymakingin the United States and abroad.
Environmental Policy and Public Health examines the main sourcesof pollution and threats to environmental integrity and exploresthe consequences of pollution on the environment and thepopulation. Throughout the book, noted environmental policy expertWilliam N. Rom explains the legal basis for environmental action,beginning with the Clean Air Act, the Wilderness Act, the NationalEnvironmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, andinternational treaties. In addition to providing information aboutexisting laws, the author presents potential policy alternativesthat offer real-world solutions.
Comprehensive in scope, the book incorporates developments inlaw, economics, global warming, and air pollution. EnvironmentalPolicy and Public Health covers these topics and also puts anemphasis on wilderness protection. An important focus of the bookis an assessment of the role of policy analysis in the formationand implementation of national and local environmental policy.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Rom, William N.

Über Autor(innen)

William N. Rom MD, MPH, is Sol and Judith Bergstein Professor of Medicine, Departments of Medicine (Pulmonary Disease) and Environmental Medicine and director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, director of the NYU Lung Cancer Biomarker Center, and director of the Chest Service and Environmental Lung Disease Laboratory at Bellevue Hospital Center. He recently was chair of the American Thoracic Society Environmental Health Policy Committee and on staff for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for the first global warming debate in fall 2003.