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A Community Guide to Environmental Health
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Download the entire book, published in 2008: A Community Guide to Environmental Health (PDF).
View and download individual chapters of A Community Guide to Environmental Health below:
- Front Matter: Credits and Thanks, Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Promoting Community Environmental Health
- Chapter 2: Understanding and Mobilizing for Community Health
- Chapter 3: Protecting Natural Resources for All
- Chapter 4: Environmental Rights and Justice
- Chapter 5: Health Problems from Unsafe Water
- Chapter 6: Protecting Community Water
- Chapter 7: Building Toilets
- Chapter 8: Health Problems from Mosquitoes
- Chapter 9: Protecting Watersheds
- Chapter 10: Forests
- Chapter 11: Restoring Land and Planting Trees
- Chapter 12: Community Food Security
- Chapter 13: The False Promise of Genetically Engineered Foods
- Chapter 14: Pesticides Are Poison
- Chapter 15: Sustainable Farming
- Chapter 16: Harm from Toxic Chemicals
- Chapter 17: A Healthy Home
- Chapter 18: Solid Waste: Turning a Health Risk into a Resource
- Chapter 19: Health Care Waste
- Chapter 20: Preventing and Reducing Harm from Toxics
- Chapter 21: Mining and Health
- Chapter 22: Oil, Illness, and Human Rights
- Chapter 23: Clean Energy
- Appendices: Safety and Emergencies; Using Laws to Fight for Environmental Rights
- Appendix: Using Laws to Fight for Environmental Rights
- Backmatter
- Index
- Resources
- Vocabulary
Environmental health pamphlets in Spanish are also available for free download.
You can search for other language editions on our translations page.
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