This chapter summarises the different types of geological and environmental hazards affecting South Africa, their causes and controls, and then uses case studies to describe the nature and impacts of some selected recent hazard events. Finally, the chapter considers the future prospects for hazard ...
However, despite the ecotoxicological hazards posed by wastewater effluents, ecotoxicological studies are currently underutilised in South African aquatic ecosystem assessments, and where they have been done, the observation is that ecotoxicological studies are mostly experimental and restricted to small study...
This paper explores the nature and impact of local and global environmental injustice in Africa. It shows that some people have been and still become toxic victims, carrying the brunt of inequitable environmental costs because of the transfer of risks and environmental hazards to some African countri...
Modern Environmental Health Hazards: A Public Health Issue of Increasing Significance in Africa Traditional hazards such as poor sanitation currently account for most of Africa's environmentally related disease burden. However, with rapid development ... Onyemaechi C. Nweke and William H. Sanders,III...
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This book provides geographic perspectives and approaches for use in assessing the distribution of environmental health hazards and disease outcomes among disadvantaged population groups. Estimates suggest that about 40 per cent of the global burden of disease is attributable to exposures to biological and...
Growing literatures on the political economy of occupational health and safety and on the political economy of contemporary fisheries need to be better int... D Howse,MF Jeebhay,B Neis - 《Journal of Agrarian Change》 被引量: 14发表: 2012年 OSHA Compliance Issues: Ergonomic Hazards in the ...
(2018). Evaluation of levels, sources and health hazards of road-dust associated toxic metals in Jalalabad and Kabul Cities, Afghanistan. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 74(1), 32–45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-017-0475-9 Article CAS Google Scholar Jia, Q., ...
– is being exported to their country [109]. In fact, EPA notified the importing countries for only 3% of such pesticide exports in 2007, prompting the EPA-OIG to conclude that importing countries may not be aware of potential hazards associated with pesticides they import from the USA [109...