Date 12 February 2020
Pages 128
Format cm 12 x 18
Price € 9.00
EAN 9782715402799
Publisher Website www.quesaisje.com

Health and the Environment

Author William Dab
Publisher Que sais-je ?
COLLECTION Que sais-je ?
Keywords Health
We all have the right to live in an balanced and healthy environment.

No one would deny the environment affects our health, but it's hard to estimate the consequences of exposure to various environmental factors, since the risks are not directly observable.
This work lays out methods for evaluating risks connected to the environment and ways for managing them given the uncertainty of our data. It shows how an approach to sound environmental policy based on the highly rational principle of precaution is not only possible but needed, and not only in media-sensationalized moments of crisis.