"Were Health Resorts Bad for your Health? Coastal Pollution Control Policy in England, 1945–76"
A case study of beach pollution illustrates economic and political influences that have shaped environmental policy in Britain.
A case study of beach pollution illustrates economic and political influences that have shaped environmental policy in Britain.
This paper traces the emergence in Russia of an interest in water as a public health issue from the 1830s and 1840s through to the modernising Great Reforms, when private interests helped bring older plans into reality.
Using New Zealand as a case study, Beattie demonstrates the strength of settler beliefs in the connections between existing environments, environmental transformation, and their own health.
In this book David Zierler tries to explain the success of the campaign against herbicidal warfare that followed the start of Operation Ranch Hand in 1961.
In Toxic Bodies Langston tells us of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), a hormone disruptor that doctors prescribed to pregnant women for decades in the mid-twentieth century.
Bryan Norton differs between two types of sustainability definitions, ‘social scientific’ and ‘ecological’ ones, in order to define our moral obligation to act sustainably.
David Rapport explores what is and what is not implied by the ecosystem health metaphor.
James Nelson considers what kind of normative work might be done by speaking of ecosystems utilizing a “medical” vocabulary—drawing, that is, on such notions as “health,” disease,” and “illness.”
Laura Westra argues that even if we could elicit a truly informed and “free” choice, the “Contingent Valuation” method would remain flawed.
This paper builds on the work of Neil A. Manson arguing that the precautionary principle is fraught with vagueness and ambiguity.