Bøker av Michael R. Greenberg

Equips public health professionals to participate effectively in the planning process, building positive health outcomes into planning schemes. The book not only provides real guidance on how to solve these issues, but also has case studies that show how effective these policies can be.

Covering environmental policies, this work shows how policy considerations can be broken down according to six specific factors: the reaction of elected government officials, the reactions of the public and special interests, knowledge developed by scientists and engineers, economics, ethical imperatives, and time pressure to make a decision.

Mutual distrust defines the relationship between those who are the sources of hazardous wastes and those who oversee their activities

Mutual distrust defines the relationship between those who are the sources of hazardous wastes and those who oversee their activities

The author profiles 24 examples of people who live or work in blighted, or crime-battered areas across the United States. Through in-depth interviews he shows how these citizens have fought to make a difference in the quality of their neighbourhoods and the lives of the residents.

Presents overviews of twenty-four of the most important issues in the nuclear realm, including: health effects, nuclear safety and engineering, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, nuclear medicine, food irradiation, transport of nuclear materials, spent fuel, nuclear weapons, and global warming.