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The Environment for Children - Understanding and Acting on the Environmental Hazards That Threaten Children and Their Parents (Paperback)
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The Environment for Children - Understanding and Acting on the Environmental Hazards That Threaten Children and Their Parents (Paperback)
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Each year, millions of children die of environmental causes and
many more suffer serious illness or injury. Children are often the
most vulnerable to the condition of their environment -and their
health is an index of its quality - but their wellbeing is rarely
given priority by governments or aid agencies. Ironically, the
problems can be traced back to matters which can be treated
straightforwardly and at relatively low cost - poor drinking water
or food, or infectious diseases which can be controlled. This book
gives a multidisciplinary account of the environmental health
hazards threatening children and the range of impacts they can
have. It also explains what can be done, by communities as well as
governments and aid workers, to provide safe and healthy
environments for children. The book looks at conditions in a range
of cities in the developing world, as well as pollutants and other
health problems affecting children in the North. Published in
association with UNICEF, and written by some of the same authors as
Environmental Problems in Third World Cities (Earthscan, 1993),
this provides excellent course material, and will be useful for
practitioners working on child development, infant and maternal
health, environmental health and community development. David
Satterthwaite is Director of the Human Settlements Programme at the
International Institute for Environment and Development, and
principal author of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities
(1993) and Squatter Citizen(1989).
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