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Air Pollution
Asthma
Built Environment and Health
Children's Environmental Health
Healthy House
Industry Deception
Inherent Safety and Chemical Security
Periodicals
Risk Issues
Sustainability
Toxics and Health

Air Pollution

• Air Quality 4th Edition

by Thad Goddish (2004)

Provides a comprehensive overview of air quality issues, including a better understanding of atmospheric chemistry, the effects of pollution on public health and the environment, and the technology and regulatory practices used to achieve air quality goals.

Asthma

• Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures

by the Institute of Medicine (2000)

Read this report free online at <http://aspe.hhs.gov/sp/asthma/appxh.pdf>

 

Built Environment and Health

• Health and Community Design: The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity

by Lawrence D. Frank, Peter O. Engelke, and Thomas L. Schmid (2003)

A comprehensive examination of how the builty environment encourages or discourages physical activity, drawing together insights from a range of reserach on the relationships between urban form and public health.

• Measuring the Health Effects of Sprawl: A National Analysis of Physical Activity, Obesity and Chronic Disease

by Barbara A. McCann and Reid Ewing (2003)

In the first such national study, health researchers found that people who live in counties marked by sprawl-style development tend to weigh more, are more likely to be obese and are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure . View online at <http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/healthreport.html>

Children's Environmental Health

• America's Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses

by EPA Office of Children's Health Protection (2003)

Order from the National Service Center for Environmental Publications at

<http://yosemite.epa.gov/ncepihom/nsCatalog.nsf/SearchPubs?OpenForm&CartID=9657-113711>

• Child Health and the Environment

by Donald T. Wigle (2003)

The first textbook to focus on environmental threats to child health.

Also visit the companion website at <http://www.mclaughlincentre.ca/programs/child.shtml>

• Children's Environmental Health: Reducing Risk in a Dangerous World

by Dona Schneider, Natalie Freeman and the American Public Health Association (2000)

With examples of strategies and tools designed to reduce risks to environmental health threats, the authors provide a critical resource to parents, school administrators, and community groups to address environmental health concerns in their homes and communities.

• Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children
  by The National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine (2005)
  This report offers much needed recommendations and practical guidance for the ethical conduct of this type of research.

• Household Detective: Protecting Children From Toxins at Home
  by Jan Williams and the Children's Health Environmental Coalition (2004)
  Order this handbook from www.checnet.org

• In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development
  by Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (2000)
  <http://www.igc.org/psr/>
  The intersection between environmental chemicals and child development is a new area of public health science. The authors elucidate the evidence for specific scientific claims and help readers understand what is known and what is conjectured.

• Pediatric Environmental Health 2nd Edition

by American Academy of Pediatrics, Ruth Etzel, MD, PhD and Sophie Balk, MD (2003)

From air pollution to waste sites, tobacco, and electric and magnetic fields, this new edition includes current information on virtually every hazard a child may encounter in everyday life.

Healthy House

• The Healthy House: How to buy one, how to build one, how to cure a sick one
  by John Bower (2000)
  The fourth edition of an essential reference on dealing with residential pollution, featuring sections from 50 indoor air quality experts. Also see the author's Healthy House Institute (http://www.hhinst.com/).

• Indoor Environmental Quality

by Thad Godish (2002)

• Lead Paint Safety: A Field Guide for Painting, Home Maintenance, and Renovation Work
  by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Lead Hazard Control (1999)
  Order from the National Lead Information Center at 1-800-424-5323.
  A simple, clear, fully-illustrated guide to lead safety and lead hazard reduction.

• My House is Killing Me!  The Home Guide for Families with Allergies and Asthma

by Jeffrey C. May (2001)

This guide identifies the sources of not only allergic but also irritant and toxic exposures in the home environment.

Industry Deception

• Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution

by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner

Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers.

• Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law, and Endangers Your Health
  by Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle and the Center for Public Integrity (1999

Toxic Sludge is Good for You! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry <http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy.html> by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber (1995) Center for Media & Democracy

Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future <http://www.prwatch.org/books/experts.html> by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber (2001) Center for Media & Democracy

• When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution
  by Devra Davis (2002)

Inherent Safety and Chemical Security

• Guidelines for Design Solutions for Process Equipment Failures

by the Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1998)
The book challenges the engineer to identify opportunities for inherent and passive safety features early, and use a risk-based approach to process safety systems specification.

• Inherently Safer Chemical Processes: A Life Cycle Approach

by Robert E. Bollinger et. al. (1996)
Published by the Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, this is a clear guide for applying inherent safety concepts to chemical accident prevention.

• Plant Design for Safety: a User-friendly Approach
  by Trevor Keltz (1991)
  From the father of inherent safety, a handbook on reducing chemical hazards starting with "what you don't have can't leak." A powerful rethinking of chemical accident prevention.

• The Encouragement of Technological Change for Preventing Chemical Accidents:  Moving firms from secondary prevention and mitigation to primary prevention

by Nicholas Ashford and the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development at MI.

Order online at DSpace/MIT Libraries.

• The Logic of Failure

by Dietrich Dorner (1996)

The Author identifies the roots of catastrophe, the small, perfectly sensible steps that set the stage for disaster.  In incisive analysis of real-life situations and often hilarious computer simulations he helps all those involved in any kind of strategic planning recognize and avoid such logical yet devastating errors.

• The Safe Hometowns Guide:  How to Do a Community Reassessment of Chemical Site Safety and Security After September 11, 2001

by Sanford Lewis, J.D.

A guide for local health and safety officers, elected officials, emergency responders, local emergency planning committees, businesses, workers, and concerned citizens to reassess community safety and security regarding the storage, use, production, and transport of exremely hazardous chemicals.  

Periodicals

• Environmental Health Perspectives: Journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  Monthly journal with full text available free online

<http://ehis.niehs.nih.gov/>
(800) 315-3010

• New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
  Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.
  <http://baywood.com>
  (800) 638-7819
  A peer-reviewed quarterly publication that gives voice to progressive viewpoints on community and workplace policy debates by labor, the grassroots, scientists, and professionals.

• Rachel’s Environment & Health Weekly
  Environmental Research Foundation
  <http://www.rachel.org>
  Two pages packed with penetrating analysis, up-to-the-minute research, passionate advocacy, strategic thinking and more for grassroots environmental justice advocates.

• Rachel's Precaution Reporter
  "When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof."

• Science for Democratic Action
  Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
  <http://www.ieer.org>
  Thoughtful, clear, and sound scientific and technical studies on issues related to nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. Even has puzzles, contests, and humor.

Risk Issues

• Making Better Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment
  by Mary O'Brien (2000)
  The limitations of environmental risk assessment and a simple, common-sense alternative are detailed.

• Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle
  by Carolyn Raffensperger and Joel Tickner, eds. (1990)
  The authors are associated with the Science and Environmental Health Network (http://www.sehn.org/).

Sustainability

• The Consumers Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
  by Michael Brower and Warren Leon (1999)
  From the Union of Concerned Scientists (http://www.ucsusa.org/), a clear, practical and rational overview of the relationship between consumer choices and the environment.

• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things
  by William McDonough and Michael Brungart (2002)
  Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural word? In fact, why not take nature itself as our industrial model?
  

• The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
  by Paul Hawken (1993)
  A successful business entrepreneur shows how an environmental perspective is the only way for business to prosper.

• Fostering Sustainable Behavior
  by Doug McKenzie-Mohr and William Smith (1999)
  While conventional marketing can help create public awareness, social marketing identifies and overcomes barriers to long-lasting behavior change. This ground-breaking book is the primary resource for the emerging new field of community-based social marketing, and an invaluable guide for anyone involved in designing public education programs with the goal of promoting sustainable behavior.

• The Greater Cleveland Environment Book: Caring for Home and the Bioregion
  by David Beach (1998)
  <http://www.ecocitycleveland.org>
  An introduction for the environmental novice. A reference for servious activists. A person invitation to discover the bioregion. And an inspirational guide for everyone who cares about the future of Northeast Ohio.

• How Much is Enough? The Consumer Society and the Future
  by Alan Durning (1992)
  A moving and insightful condemnation of over-consumption and environmental degredation.

• Learning to Think Environmentally While There is Still Time
  by Lester W. Milbrath (1996)
  A small book that explains the interdependency and delicate balance of biological, geological and chemical systems. Features cartoons by Toles.

• Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
  by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees (1996)
  In clear language with diagrams, charts and cartoons, this slim volumn presents a powerful tool for measuring and visualizing the earth's resources required to sustain our households, communities, regions and nations.

Toxics and Health

• A Small Dose of Toxicology: The Health Effects of Common Chemicals
  by Steven G. Gilbert (2004)
  www.asmalldoseof.org
  A Small Dose of Toxicology presents the principles of toxicology by exploring the effects of common chemical agents then applies this knowledge to environmental contaminates. Environmental and public health professionals, as well as novices and students requiring a basic foundation in toxicology will find this resource incredibly useful.


• Generations At Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment
  by Ted Schettler, M.D., Gina Solomon, M.D., Maria Valenti and Annette Huddle (1999)

• Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
  by Sandra Steingraber (1997)

• Our Stolen Future
  by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers (1997)
  A gripping account of how synthetic chemicals that mimic natural hormones maybe upsetting normal reproductive and developmental processes in animals and humans.

• Street Science
  by Jason Corburn (2005)
  In this highly original look at environmental health policymaking, Jason Corburn shows the ways that local knowledge can be combined with professional techniques to achieve better solutions for environmental health problems.

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