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Spanish edition of A Community Guide to Environmental Health

Following the success of the English edition of A Community Guide to Environmental Health, and in response to the numerous request by partner organizations in Spanish-speaking countries, Hesperian is working to produce the Spanish edition of the book, Una guía comunitaria para la salud ambiental. This groundbreaking book, developed in collaboration with communities from around the world, provides practical and comprehensive strategies for communities addressing environmental health threats.

This guide has twenty-three chapters which break down the broad overview of environmental issues and concerns into specific examples of how they affect peoples’ health, and how communities have organized to improve their environment and thus their own lives. These chapters include: Promoting Environmental Health; Environmental Rights and Justice; Protecting Community Water; Building Toilets; Mining and Health; Solid Waste: Turning a Health Risk into a Resource; Preventing and Reducing Harm from Toxics; Sustainable Farming; Restoring Land and Planting Trees, The False Promise of Genetically-Engineered Foods; and Clean Energy.Related Materials.

What people are saying about the Spanish edition:

Through this message we would like to let you know that we think the book A Community Guide to Environmental Health, by Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem is a great resource that can be of much use for community life in Chiapas. This is why we are asking you to please translate this book into Spanish, so that we can disseminate this information in the communities with which we work. We hope this is possible and that you consider this as an option for us, Spanish-speaking countries.
-- Cynthia Ramirez Rios
Working group Desmi, A.C., Mexico

I’ve had the opportunity to read one of the translated chapters of the Community Guide for Environmental Health titled Water for Life. From this chapter I can see the wealth of information that this book has, and that is why I am asking the editors of the book to consider translating the entire book.
--Oscar Olivera
Cochabamba’s Factory Workers Federation, Bolivia.

We hope that this publication gets translated into Spanish because it will support the constant work towards changing the [environmentally degrading] habits of our societies.
---Adriana Marquisio
National Commission for the Defense of Water and Life, Uruguay

In Ecuador, where the most environmental constitution was just approved,
we consider this book to be a vital resource towards the integral and unpostponable restoration of the environment in which we live and which affects our health. In the hands of community organizations, this book
could elevate, to a socio-economic flag, what is now a slogan in
Ecuadorian soccer: "Yes, It Can Be Done." Thank you to the authors for their meticulous and expansive efforts, and to Hesperian for their permanent commitment.
--Adolfo Maldonado
Accion Ecologica, Ecuador

For a partial list of individuals and organizations who worked to help Hesperian research and develop A Community Guide, see the List of Collaborators.

Related Materials

The following chapters are available in Spanish for free downloads:

• Cómo prevenir el CÓLERA
• Saneamiento y limpieza para un ambiente sano
• Agua para vivir Cómo proteger el agua comunitaria
• Los plaguicidas son veneno

Nnimmo Bassey from Environmental Rights Action - Nigeria talks about contributing to A Community Guide to Environmental Health.

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We depend on the support of people like you, who share our vision of a healthier and more just world. Your gift will enable this book to be developed and distributed to communities around the world that otherwise could not afford it. Your actions make a difference. Please give online or call Leah Uberseder at (510) 845-1447 to make a donation over the phone or or e-mail her at leah@hesperian.org.