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A Community Guide to Environmental Health

Posted: September 11, 2019 by MAEE Administration

Category: Sharing Environmental Education Knowledge (SEEK)

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A Community Guide to Environmental Health
Post Date: September 11, 2019
Resource Type:
  • short PDF
  • Book | Magazine
Description:

From toilets to toxics, from watershed management to waste management, from raising crops to rising temperatures, how we use natural resources affects our health and well-being.

This highly illustrated guide helps health promoters, development workers, environmental activists, and community leaders take charge of their environmental health. In small villages and large cities, A Community Guide to Environmental Health can provide the tools, knowledge, and inspiration to begin transforming the crisis in environmental health.

This book contains activities to stimulate critical thinking and discussion, inspirational stories, and instructions for simple health technologies such as water purification methods, safe toilets, and non-toxic cleaning products. 23 chapters cover topics including:

  • preventing and reducing harm from toxic pollution
  • forestry, restoring land, and planting trees
  • protecting community water and watersheds
  • food security and sustainable farming
  • environmental health at home
  • solid waste and health care waste
  • how to reduce harm from mining, oil, and energy production
  • With dozens of activities to stimulate critical thinking and discussion, instructions for simple health technologies such as safe toilets, safe cleaning methods, and water purification methods, and hundreds of drawings to make the messages clear, A Community Guide to Environmental Health will be useful for people just beginning to address environmental health threats, as well as people with many years experience in the field.

    Author: Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem
    Topic:
    • Health
    Audience:
    • Public
    • All
    Length in pages or time: 600 pp.
    Fee?: 1
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    Order information or contact: Hesperian Foundation 1919 Addison Street, Suite 304 Berkeley, CA 94704 USA Phone: (510) 845-1447 Fax: (510) 845-9141 Toll free in the US: (888) 729-1796 Email: hesperian@hesperian.org http://www.hesperian.org
    Link: http://en.hesperian.org/hhg/A_Community_Guide_to_Environmental_Health
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