Environmental Health in Australia and New Zealand

 edited by Cromar, Cameron, and Fallowfield  Pb 400pages

An introductory yet comprehensive textbook for the current and emerging needs of the environmental health professional, written by experts in the field, based on Risk Assessment, a methodology adopted world wide to address environmental health issues. As it highlights environmental health issues applicable to Australia, and our near neighbours, it provides the means for assessing, correcting, controlling and preventing those aspects of human health that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social and psychosocial factors in the environment.

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Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment

by Cass R. Sunstein Pb 358p

What should be done about airplane safety and terrorism, global warming, polluted water, nuclear power, and genetically engineered food? All over the globe, risks to safety, health, and the environment are a subject of intense interest and often illogical reaction. This book explains the sources of these problems and explores what can be done about them. It shows how individual thinking and social interactions lead us in foolish directions. Offering sound proposals for social reform, it explains how a more sensible system of risk regulation, embodied in the idea of a ‘cost-benefit state’, could save many thousands of lives and many billions of dollars too - and protect the environment in the process.

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