Routledge Focus on Environmental Health
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Cutting edge books for Environmental Health professionals and students.
Ethics and the Environmental Health Profession
1st Edition
By Stephen Battersby, David Miles
September 25, 2025
Providing an exploration of the discussion on how a stronger ethical basis for the work of EHPs can contribute to improved public health, because EHPs/EHOs come into daily contact with members of the public to address threats to their health and wellbeing. This book examines what is meant by ...
Local Air Quality Control and Health: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Mark Hardwick, Nahum Kidan, Nathaniel Smith, Steve Manning
August 15, 2025
This highly accessible book identifies the major air pollutants which cause human health concerns and examines the sources of these pollutants. With a focus on NOx gases, particulate matter (PM), tropospheric ozone, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), Part 1 covers the theory and relates these ...
Dampness in Dwellings: Causes, Effects and Remedies
2nd Edition
By Stephen Battersby, Véronique Ezratty
May 20, 2025
This revised and updated book provides a definition of dampness in each of its forms; it details the various potential sources and causes that can result in damage to the building and damage to the health of the occupiers. It is both practical and provides an outline of the possible solutions, ...
Private Sector Housing and Health: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Regulation Intended to Protect the Health of Tenants
1st Edition
By Paul Oatt
July 10, 2024
This book is an evaluation of the effectiveness of housing enforcement and tenant protection in England’s private rented sector using policy analysis to evaluate regulatory provisions and local authority guidance to identify the advantages and limitations of existing policies. From the ...
COVID-19: The Global Environmental Health Experience
1st Edition
By Chris Day
November 15, 2023
This book is devoted to the efforts of Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs), their employers and supportive professional bodies world-wide in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing upon the first-hand experiences and reflections of EHPs working across the professional discipline in ...
Fire Safety in Residential Property: A Practical Approach for Environmental Health
1st Edition
By Richard Lord
November 15, 2023
This book aims to take the reader through all aspects of fire safety and management in residential settings, from origin and ignition, risk assessment, protection and prevention, as well as comparing effective enforcement options from across all parts of the UK. It outlines the basis of law, ...
Sewerage and Sewage as an Environmental Health Issue
1st Edition
By Stephen Battersby
October 10, 2023
This book examines the increasingly prevalent issues around sewerage and sewage and explores what environmental health practitioners (EHPs) can contribute to addressing this issue and what further action is required. The book sets out an analysis of the contents of raw sewage, including what should...
Assessing Public Health Needs in a Lower Middle Income Country
1st Edition
By Sarah Ruel-Bergeron, Jimi Patel, Riksum Kazi, Charlotte Burch
May 31, 2023
This book demonstrates a methodology for assessing public health needs in communities experiencing environmental sanitation inadequacies. Centring on a case study of the Republic of Cameroon, the findings represent the starting point of a campaign to implement a comprehensive water and sanitation ...
Leadership Lessons from a Global Health Crisis: From the Pandemic to the Climate Emergency
1st Edition
By Jo Nurse
May 18, 2023
This book explores the key learning concepts for global leadership in the face of modern international health crises and argues the need for fundamental reform to governance paradigms, within the global security sphere and policymaking circles. Beginning with an analysis of the worldwide response ...
Tackling Environmental Health Inequalities in a South African City?: Rediscovering Regulation, Local Government and its Environmental Health Practitioners
1st Edition
By Rob Couch
May 03, 2023
South Africa is widely recognised as a middle-income, industrialised nation, but it also ranks amongst the most unequal countries in the world in terms of its income distribution and human development. Environmental health remains a considerable public health challenge in the 21st century as ...
Houses of Multiple Occupation and Selective Licensing
1st Edition
By Neli Borisova, David Smith
October 31, 2022
The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the law relating to houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in part 2 of the Housing Act 2004 that local authorities environmental health practitioners use to regulate this sector. This book emerged from a set of course ...
Dampness in Dwellings: Causes and Effects
1st Edition
By David Ormandy, Véronique Ezratty, Stephen Battersby
May 23, 2022
This book provides a definition of dampness in each of its forms, details the various potential sources, and causes that can result in damage to the building, and importantly, the threats to the health of the occupiers. It is practical, providing an outline of the possible solutions looking at...