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| View Larger Image | A Community Guide to Environmental Health | Paperbackby Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem (Author)
| List Price: | $28.00 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Hesperian Foundation | | Edition: | First edition 2008th Edition | | Page Count: | 600 Pages | | Publication Date: | July 01, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 725,870th |
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Product Description
From water quality to social inequality, from raising crops to rising temperatures, how we use natural resources afftects our health and well-being.This highly-illustrated guide will help health promoters, educators, community leaders and ordinary people take charge of their communities' environmental health. In small villages and large cities, 'A Community Guide to Environmental Health' can provide tools, knowledge, and inspiration to begin transforming the global crisis in evironmental health.This book contains activities to stimulate critical thinking and environmental change, dozens of stories of communitites in action, and instructions for making simple technologies to purify water, clean without toxics, get rid of pests, and more.Like all Hesperian books, this title was developed in consultation with organizations from around the world, ensuring its appropriateness and usefulness for a variety of cultures and circumstances. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 2 reviews)
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Interesting, if somewhat idealistic by Books'N'More (Pennsylvania)  4 Stars
January 13, 2009
Warning: I am not a health care professional -- I just like this sort of thing.
This book is interesting, informative, and provides plenty of examples and good ideas. Meant for small communities that lack many resources, I still found there was much for me, a US citizen, to learn. Although I have running water, a sewage system, and all the other amenities, reading about how to cope without them gave me some good ideas for making my home more environmentally friendly. The whole conflict resolution/work together/role play seems somewhat idealistic, but I've found that some of the ideas presented can be useful for me as a nanny. And if the professionals are dedicated enough, they can make the ideas work in actual communities.
A good read.
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Low-tech solutions for community living: Review by author of When Technology Fails by Matthew I. Stein (Truckee, CA)  5 Stars
August 20, 2008
Produced by the same people who publish Where There is No Doctor, this is an excellent, well illustrated guide for healthy, self-reliant living at a low-tech village level. It covers the gamut from dealing with toxic contamination from local mines or other industries, to village sewage sanitation for protecting the local water supply, to village health care, sustainable agriculture, pesticide and heavy metal issues, community renewable energy, community water systems, etc. A terrific resource guide for villages all over the world, especially those where corporate logging, mining, or manufacturing interests have had a negative impact on the health and welfare of the community. In addition to villages, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who wishes to live a relatively low-tech and low-impact lifestyle, whether on their own or as part of a self-reliant community.
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