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Main Title Environmental and human health : risk management in developing countries /
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Laboy, Eddie Nelson.
Emmanuel, Evens.
Goosen, Mattheus F. A.
Publisher CRC Press/Balkema,
Year Published 2010
OCLC Number 641534850
ISBN 9780415601627; 0415601622
Subjects Environmental health--Developing countries ; Health risk assessment--Developing countries ; Environmental management--Health aspects--Developing countries ; Sustainable development--Health aspects--Developing countries ; Economic development--Health aspects--Developing countries ; Ekonomisk utveckling--hälsoaspekter--U-länder ; Conservation of Natural Resources ; Environmental Restoration and Remediation ; Environmental Monitoring ; Conservation of Natural Resources--Developing Countries ; Environmental Remediation--Developing Countries ; Environmental Monitoring--Developing Countries
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http://www.crcnetbase.com/ISBN/978-0-415-60162-7
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Status
ELBM  RA566.5.D44E585 2010 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 01/03/2012
Collation xiv, 276 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes
Communicating Environmental Risks and the Decision Making Process: 1. Environmental and human health risk management: an overview / Mattheus F.A. Goosen, Eddie N. Laboy-Nieves and Evens Emmanuel -- 2. Communicating environmental risks in developing countries / Karlo Malave-Llamas and Maria del C. Cotto-Maldonado -- 3. Environmental management in Brazil: reducing organizational risks / Eliciane Maria da Silva and Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour -- 4. Tsunami hazards: a case study of risk management in the Caribbean Region / Eddie N. Laboy-Nieves and Julio A. Oms -- 5. Cost-benefit analysis to enhance the risk management decision making process / Adalberto Bosque and Fred C. Schaffner -- 6. Adjusted genuine savings and human development index: a two dimensional indicator for sustainability / Holger Schlor, Wolfgang Fischer, Jurgen-Friedrich Hake and Eddie N. Laboy-Nieves -- Management of Surface and Groundwater Resources: 7. Management, public opinion and research on Costa Rica's surface and groundwater resources / Peter Phillips -- 8. Stormwater management practices: the case of Port-au-Prince, Haiti / Farah A. Dorval ... [et al.] -- 9. Impact of surface runoff on the aquifers of Port-au-Prince, Haiti / Urbain Fifi, Thierry Winiarski and Evens Emmanuel -- Conservation of Land, Air, Water and Cultural Assets: 10. Ethnoecological restoration of deforested and agrocultural tropical lands for Mesoamerica / Silvia del Amo Rodriguez ... [et al.] -- 11. Atmospheric aerosols: a case study from the Caribbean Region / Antonio E. Carro-Anzalotta and Lisbeth San Miguel-Rivera -- 12. The potential of Thillandsia sp. to monitor PAHs from automobile sources in Puerto Rico / Yolanda Ramos-Jusino and Eddie N. Laboy-Nieves -- 13. Degradation of PCBs and spilled oil by bioenhancing agents / Eileen C. Villafane-Deyack and Eddie N. Laboy-Nieves -- 14. Cryptosporidium oocyst transmission in the aquatic environment of Haiti / Katty Balthazard-Accou ... [et al.] -- Risk Management and Wastewater Reuse: 15. Health-related aspects of wastewater reuse in urban truck farming: a case study of Yaounde, Cameroon / Guy R. Kouaum-Kenmogme ... [et al.] -- 16. Application of low-cost sorbents to remove chromium from industrial wastewater discharges / Iris N. Cosme-Colon, Evens Emmanuel and Eddie N. Laboy-Nieves -- 17. Viability of the upflow anaerobic sludge process for risk management of wastewater treatment / Nancy Ma ... [et al.].