Environmental Factors Affecting Human Health

Edited by Ivan Uher

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Abstract: Raising the average human lifespan by a decade or more will change our world. The future is not about whether this will happen; it is about what we should do when it happens. Even the most pessimistic assertions about the future of our environment are underestimating the extent of the problem. There is simply no model in which more years of life does not equate to more people and in which that does not lead to more crowding, environmental degradation, more consumption, and more waste. Hence, as we prolong life, these environmental crises will be further exacerbated. With current diets and production practices, feeding 7,6 billion people is degrading terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, depleting water resources, and driving climate changes. The challenges of today are not just population, and it's not just consumption, it is waste also. Thanks to things such as cars, planes, big homes, deforestation and so forth, the annual carbon dioxide emissions of an average are three times as high as it should be. It is likely that this signals that the current level of dividends is unsustainable, hence, we use and return little of value to our natural world. In our book, we address the questions related to environmental health challenges that include contamination of air, water, and soil, and car transportation. In order to better understand natural, industrial, and social-environmental hazards, we have to think of them in a broader context (i.e., physical, chemical, biological, and cultural). We hope that the presented publication gives the reader a broader perspective on the issues related to environmental health challenges in contemporary society in the coming years.

JEL-codes: Q51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78985-527-2
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Effects of Climate Change on City Life: Case Study in the City of Ambon, Indonesia East Region

Gun Mardiatmoko and Jan Willem Hatulesila

Heavy Metals and the Environment

Iveta Cimbolakova, Ivan Uher, Katarina Veszelits Lakticova, Maria Vargova, Tatiana Kimakova and Ingrid Papajova

Immune Alteration Caused by Fibrous and Particulate Environmental Substances

Takemi Otsuki

Investigating Effects of Climate Change on Health Risks in Nigeria

Femi Ilevbare

Review of Environmental and Public Health Impact of Automobile Wastes and Automobile Transportation in Nigeria

John Kanayochukwu Nduka and Henriette Ijeoma Kelle

Sanitation and the Environment

Maria Vargova, Katarina Veszelits Lakticova, Iveta Cimbolakova, Ivan Uher, Peter Korim, Rudolf Hromada and Ingrid Papajova

Seasonal Changes of Soil Organic Carbon and Microbial Biomass Carbon in Different Forest Ecosystems

Emre Babur

Sugar Industry Wastes as Wealth of Organic Carbon for Soil

A. Krishnaveni, Sivakumar Chinnasamy, Jamuna Elumalai and M.Pandiyan Muthaiyan

Toward an Economic and Environmental Sustainability of the Health Systems of Western Countries

Andres J. Ursa Herguedas

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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.81138

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