description: The Rating Guide to Environmentally Healthy Metro Areas rates all 317 U.S. metro areas in 10 critical categories to determine the potential toxic loads that residents may be exposed to. It is recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. This pioneering 197-page book will be a very useful tool for those who want to relocate or travel to healthier cities, and for those who need to know the most important pollutants to tackle in their current city. The results often are quite surprising and will induce readers to think more comprehensively about the connections between their health and their urban environment. The book focuses on an important premise that has been understood for some time and that the Environmental Protection Agency is just beginning to work on. "We must move beyond the pollutant-by-pollutant approach and focus on the cumulative exposure to environmental threats," said EPA Administrator Carol Browner in the March 19, 1997, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Healthier metro areas are located throughout the United States. There is only a weak correlation between a metro area's population and its environmental health rating. The book already has been acquired by individuals, organizations, and city and university libraries in almost every state. For more information on the book, check out our website
language: English
title: Rating Guide to Environmentally Healthy Metro Areas
titlecomplete: Rating Guide to Environmentally Healthy Metro Areas
publisher: Animas Pr