Routledge Handbook of Water and Health (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bartram, Jamie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive handbook provides an authoritative source of information on global water and health, suitable for interdisciplinary teaching for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. It covers both developing and developed country concerns.

It is organized into sections covering: hazards (including disease, chemicals and other contaminants); exposure; interventions; intervention implementation; distal influences; policies and their implementation; investigative tools; and historic cases. It offers 71 analytical and engaging chapters, each representing a session of teaching or graduate seminar.

Written by a team of expert authors from around the world, many of whom are actively teaching the subject, the book provides a thorough and balanced overview of current knowledge, issues and relevant debates, integrating information from the environmental, health and social sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 750
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317436980
• Artikelnr.: 44000896

Autorenporträt

Jamie Bartram is Director of The Water Institute and Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Associate Editors: Rachel Baum (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), Peter A. Coclanis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), David M. Gute (Tufts University, USA), David Kay (University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK), Stéphanie McFadyen (Health Canada, Canada), Katherine Pond (University of Surrey, UK), William Robertson (Water Microbiology Consultant, Canada), and Michael J. Rouse (Independent International Consultant on Water Industry, UK).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction  Jamie Bartram and Rachel Baum  Part 1: Water-related
Hazards  2. Introduction: Water-related Hazards  Stéphanie McFadyen and
William Robertson  3. Bradley Classification of Disease Transmission Route
for Water-related Hazards  Jamie Bartram and Paul Hunter  4. Waterborne and
Water-washed Disease  Mark D. Sobsey  5. Water-based Disease and Microbial
Growth  Charles P. Gerba and Gordon Nichols  6. Water Related Insect
Vectors of Disease  Arne Bomblies  7. Health Impacts of Water Carriage 
Jo-Anne Geere  8. Hazards from Legionella  Richard Bentham  9. Toxic
Cyanobacteria  Ron W. Zurawell  10. Chemical Hazards  Lisa Smeester, Andrew
E. Yosim and Rebecca C. Fry  11. Radionuclides in Water  R. William Field 
Part 2: Sources of Exposure  12. Introduction: Exposure Pathways  Katherine
Pond  13. Drinking Water Contamination  Christine Stauber and Lisa
Casanova  14. Recreational Water Contamination  Marc Verhougstraete,
Jonathan Sexton and Kelly Reynolds  15. Water and Foodborne Contamination 
Timothy R. Julian and Kellogg J. Schwab  16. Waterborne Zoonoses  Victor
Gannon and Chad R. Laing  Part 3: Interventions (What do we do to Reduce
Exposure)  17. Introduction: Interventions to Reduce Water-related Disease 
Katherine Pond, David M. Gute and Susan Murcot  18. Drinking Water Supply 
Jamie Bartram and Samuel Godfrey  19. Drinking Water Treatment  Donald
Reid  20. Wastewater Treatment  Laura Sima  21. Household Water Treatment
and Safe Storage  Maria Elena Figueroa and D. Lawrence Kincaid  22. Water
for Hygiene  Aidan A. Cronin and Therese Dooley