Environmental planning: a health physicist's view.

Environmental planning and urban health.

1 Doctoral candidate in urban planning Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, New York City, USA 2 Chair of Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York City, USA 3 Professor of Medicine and Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York City, USA Address for Correspondence: Joyce ...

Nontrivial quantum effects in biology: A skeptical physicists' view

This chapter is somewhat of an anomaly in this book. Firstly, its authors profess no particular knowledge of any effects in biology, (whether quantum or non-quantum, trivial or non-trivial), both being theoretical quantum physicists by trade. Secondly, we adopt here a skeptical view on the existence of such effects if they fall in the non-trivial class. That two such skeptical non-experts have ...

How Academic Biologists and Physicists View Science Outreach

Scholars and pundits alike argue that U.S. scientists could do more to reach out to the general public. Yet, to date, there have been few systematic studies that examine how scientists understand the barriers that impede such outreach. Through analysis of 97 semi-structured interviews with academic biologists and physicists at top research universities in the United States, we classify the type...

Criticality Safety Principles for Health Physicists

Should health systems agencies be involved in environmental health planning?

Public Law 93-641 provides health systems agencies (HSAs) with a broad planning preview which has enabled a number of agencies to address environmental health issues in their health systems plans. Opponents of HSA involvement in environmental health planning charge that these activities overextend agency resources, duplicate efforts of other government agencies and involve HSAs in "issues of pu...