ISSN:
1573-2932
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
Notes:
Abstract The early preoccupation of public health agencies with epidemics led to a dominance of the public health movement by medical concepts. Included were a narrow focussing on disease control, and an authoritarian approach. When a broadening public concern with environmental quality became manifest, in the early 1940's, new agencies were created to control ‘pollution’, and efforts were made to involve the citizenry in the decision making process. In the late 1960's, with the ushering in of the age of ecological awareness, it became evident that even these two programs were not enough, and that he who undertakes to control man's health must so manage the total system that man enjoys an optimum habitat, and must do this within the limits of the total biospheric life support system. This new effort is appropriately termed environmental health. The paper sets forth habitat requirements of man in the form of five separate goals and describes the limitations of the biosphere in terms of four modes of failure, and then proceeds to show the general direction that these two sets of constraints will give to future programs of solid waste management.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00160454
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