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Our Global Environment : A Health Perspective, 4/E

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Broad coverage of important topics in environmental health. Most important of all, it is very easy to read and grasp the points that the author is trying to make. It is comparatively much more readible than many other titles in the subject.

Anyone who reads this book will find that it is wonderful. I have only read a few chapters of if for a college course that I am taking, and am looking forward to reading more of it. The information included in the text was so easy to grasp and to remember. The author thinks about every little aspect concerning the issue and draws on it clearly so as to make sure that the reader understands each and every issue involved. This surely is a book for anyone who is interested in environmental issues and what causese those issues to come about and how much of an impact that we humans have on the planet.

This book was a required text for one of my courses. In the past I have not had the best experiences with texts that offer such broad overviews of topics, and as result, I was not looking forward to reading this book. However, I have found the book extremely well written with an abundance of references for additional reading and further research. Every chapter has inserts of up to date events that outline both the environmental and health effects of pollution on world populations. For example the chapter on "Water Pollution" (Ch. 15) at the same time that it identifies the many sources of water pollution it also provides the reader examples of water pollution on health; such as, describing in detail the how and why schistosomiasis infection rates have remained constant for the past 50 years affecting 250 million people globally. If you are interested on a well written introductory book on the environment and health, this is certainly a book to keep in mind.

Overall a good read. It is a good overview of the myriad areas of the field. An easy read with some useful, interesting sidebars which look at the issues more in-depth.

However, some of the text seemed unnecessarily ethnocentric. In places, such as the population chapter, it felt condescending to peoples of other nations and their accompanying cultures and traditions. Furthermore, in one graph it depicted North America as being comprised solely of Canada and the U.S., excluding Mexico and all of Central America. Implicit is that the term "America" is reserved for "proper," "white" Anglophile people. Overall a good book, but the ethnocentrism left a bad taste in my mouth.

This was a recommended textbook for my environmental health class as a public health student. For someone who took this course not because I was extremely interested, but because it was required, this book did a great job of summarizing the consequences of environmental exposure on health while keeping it pretty interesting and without getting bogged down in inconsequential details. I kept it at the end of class and refer to it from time to time.

This is a very well organized book that covers the major environmental issues facing our world complete with case study examples to illustrate the points.

I think that this book is very educational and successful in getting the point across to the readers. I would personally reccomend this book to anyone who is interested in evironmental issues because it is very thorough and easy to understand.

The author of this book seems passionate about environmental world affairs. With that being said a lot of the sources were biased strongly in one direction. Also the chapters are very choppy and the transisions are forced. If this wasn't my text book I would have never bought it.

This book has really help me understand global environmental issues that impact our current and future living conditions. The author uses words and phrases that can be understand by most learners.

This is one of the few textbooks I've ever had that I actually like. The information is presented well and is easy to understand. Background information is presented in light of current environmental health issues, making this book surprisingly engaging. I'd read this even if I wasn't required to.