Environmental Challenges in the Pacific

This volume addresses issues related to the threats to human health from exposure to environmental pollutants in the Pacific Region, including how to reduce the production of such pollutants and remove or destroy them when they are produced. It specifically explores how to monitor levels of exposure in human populations and how to evaluate the health consequences of these exposures. Chapters explore the relationships between air quality and asthma, environmental contamination and breast cancer, mercury and neurobehavioral problems, and present information on new technologies for hazardous substance remediation.NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas.ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit www.nyas.org/membership/main.asp for more information about becoming a member.

DAVID O. CARPENTER is a public health physician. His research focuses on human diseases resulting from exposure to environmental contaminants. Following positions at the National Institute of Mental Health and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Dr. Carpenter joined the New York State Department of Health as Director of the Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research. He helped create and became the first Dean of the School of Public Health, a collaborative endeavor of the University at Albany and the New York State Department of Health. Upon stepping down as Dean, Dr. Carpenter founded the Institute for Health and the Environment. In 2011, the Institute was named a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization in Environmental Health.

Preface
Introduction: Environment and Health in the 21st Century: Challenges and Solutions
Policy
AsiaG+ s Changing Role in Global Climate Change
Comparative Environmental Health Assessments: A Brief Introduction and Application in China
Strategies for Addressing Global Environmental Health Concerns
The Developmental Impact of the Financed Environmental Projects of the Development Bank of the Philippines in the Promotion of Equity and Sustainable Development
Aquaculture Feed and Food Safety: The Role of FAO and Codex Alimentarius
Water and Weather
Investigating Water Pollution of the Dareh Morad Beik River in the Hamadan District
Influence of BOD Degradation Patterns on Water Quality Modeling for Rivers Running through Urban Area
Research on the Meteorological Conditions and its Related Diseases in Hefei China
Organic Pollutants
Levels of Pesticides and PCBs in selected homes in Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Thailand
Pops Hotspot: Soil Contamination Due To a Demolished DDT (POP) Factory, Nowshera (NWFP) Pakistan
Monitoring of DNA Damage in Exposed Individuals to Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Ecuador
From Poison Ponds to Pleasure Spots: The Restoration of Hyderabad Lakes
PCB Levels in Humans in an Area of PCB Transformer Recycling
ChildrenG+ s Environmental Health
Children's Environmental Health in the 21st Century: Challenges and Solutions
Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene Exposure during the First Trimester of Pregnancy Alters the Anal Position in Male Infants
Susceptibility of Children to Environmental Pollutants
The Effect of Plasma Lead on Anembryonic Pregnancy
Children's Environmental Health: Intergenerational Equity in Action - A Civil Society Perspective
Asthma and Infectious Respiratory Disease in Relation to Residence Near to Hazardous Waste Sites
Air Pollution
Domestic Fuels, Indoor Air Pollution and ChildrenG+ s Health: The Case of Rural India
Emission of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) from Indoor Straw Burning an Demission Investory Updating in China
Indoor Air Quality of Houses Llocated in the Urban Environment of Agra
Study of the Current Status and Factors that Influence Indoor Air Pollution in
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Environmental Challenges in the Pacific Basin, Volume 1140

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