Environmental Health - Theory and Practice (eBook)

This two-volume work discusses environmental health, the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health, and addresses key issues at the global and local scales. The work offers an overview of the methodologies and paradigms that define this burgeoning field, ranging from ecology to epidemiology, and from pollution to environmental psychology, and addresses a wide variety of global concerns including air quality, water and sanitation, food security, chemical/physical hazards, occupational health, disease control, and injuries. The authors intend to provide up-to-date information for environmental health professionals, and to provide a reference for students and consultants working at the interface between health and environmental sectors. 

Volume 1 focuses on discussing the fundamentals of physical, chemical, and biological sciences in an environmental health context, and introduces the key concepts that bridge environmental health and medical sciences to accurately inform both environmental and medical professionals. The book addresses different specializations in medical science that account for environmental health issues, and aims to reduce the knowledge gap among professionals on public health topics such as pollution impacts, occupational hazards, radiation exposure, natural disasters, and climate change.

Ramesha Chandrappa is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, and has done professional courses at The University of Manchester, Ecole Polytechnique Federation De Lausanne (EPFL), the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), UNESCO-IHE, and the United National Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). He has extensive experience collaborating with leading multinational and government organizations, and he is currently  Project Development Officer and Director Research (In charge) for the Environmental Management Policy Research Institute in Bangalore. His research interests include climate change, solid waste management, water and sanitation, and environmental education.

Dr Diganta Bhusan Das holds a personal title Reader in Porous Media in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He has the work experience at the University of Oxford (UK), Technical University of Delft (the Netherlands), and many other places in Europe, USA and Asia. Dr Das is currently the Deputy Lead for the Research Challenge on Changing Environment and Infrastructure at Loughborough University and Deputy Director of Doctoral Research in the School of Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University. He has taught a variety of courses relating to environmental pollution control, water engineering, fluid mechanics, reaction engineering, and mass transfer processes. Dr Das is a keen collaborator and team builder on a range of multidisciplinary porous medium topics such as (i) coupled free and porous flow (e.g., leakage in fluid distribution pipes, membrane separation), (ii) two-phase flow in porous media (iii) membrane water treatment (iv) chemical transport in porous tissues and tissue engineering bioreactors.