Title: Our precarious habitat :
Authors: Benarde, Melvin A.
Date: 1989
Publisher: Wiley,
Physical description: xv, 636 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: Webs of causation: The environment as a system -- Microbial food poisoning -- Chemicals in food -- Zoonoses -- Pesticides -- Accidents -- Noise pollution -- Occupational health -- Radiation and nuclear power generation -- Air pollution -- Water pollution -- Sanitary sewage/waste water treatment -- Hazardous and solid wastes -- Population and patterns of disease -- Risk assessment, communication, and the politics of pollution -- Index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Environmental health.; Human beings--Effect of environment on.; Nature--Effect of human beings on.; Pollution.