Addressing Global Environmental Issues

Global Environmental Issues

Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 2013

Addressing Ethical, Social, and Cultural Issues in Global Health Research

1 Ethical, Social and Cultural Program for Global Health, Centre for Research on Inner City Health and Centre for Global Health Research, Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2 Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3 Ethical, Social and Cult...

Some Global Environmental Issues of Public Concern

In this talk I will pick three key environmental issues that dominate the risk or impact, or dominate the public perception thereof: (a) What is the effect upon health of particulate air pollution at today's levels? Experts increasingly believe that fine particulates kill 70,000 people a year in the USA, but this has not yet been officially admitted by any government. (b) What is the effect of ...

Addressing global environmental challenges from a peace ecology perspective.

Addressing Fundamental Issues

Kuhn and Dean (this issue) make a valuable contribution to the challenge of increasing the scientific reasoning skills of lowperforming urban sixth graders. They describe a procedure that was highly effective in the short run, and they show how difficult it is to achieve long-term transfer with anything less than extremely detailed and direct instruction. In addition, their work raises importan...