GGR345H5 Chapter Notes -Human Waste, List Of Extremely Hazardous Substances, Survey Data Collection
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Disease-causing agents (pathogens) or pollutants in the human environment (in the air, soil: shortages of natural resources essential to human health (for instance insufficient fresh. The presence within the home and its immediate surrounds of disease causing agents: physical hazards (for instance accidental fires or flooding for housing built on flood-plains or. 2 environmental problems in the home, workplace, and neighborhood hardoy. This chapter concentrates on three kinds of environmental problem in relation to the home, workplace, and neighborhood: food or water) which can damage human health water) mudslides or landslides for housing built on steep slopes) These are all environmental problems that can be reduced or eliminated by human intervention. Although governments in these countires were often slow to react, the fact that more effective environmental policies developed despite the opposition of powerful vested inerests is a demonstration of democratic processes at work. Such democratic processes are controlled or repressed in many low- and middle-income nations.
