Healthy environments for healthy people: bioremediation today and tomorrow.

Healthy environments for healthy people: bioremediation today and tomorrow.

Increases in environmental contamination lead to a progressive deterioration of environmental quality. This condition challenges our global society to find effective measures of remediation to reverse the negative conditions that severely threaten human and environmental health. We discuss the progress being made toward this goal through application of bioremediation techniques. Bioremediation ...

Membrane Engineering for Today and for Tomorrow

Healthy Rivers for Tomorrow

Preface The Healthy Rivers Commission has completed investigations of the coastal catchments of rivers and lakes as referred to it by the NSW Government since 1995. Lessons learnt from those Inquiries have led the Commission to establish a number of key principles and strategies, which it believes are essential to achieving healthy rivers, lakes and catchments. This document advances a vision f...

Healthy today, healthy tomorrow? Findings from the National Population Health Survey

Ensuring Healthy American Indian Generations for Tomorrow through Safe and Healthy Indoor Environments

American Indians (AI) have the highest rate of severe physical housing problems in the U.S. (3.9%). Little information exists about the environmental hazards in AI homes. The purposes of this paper are to discuss challenges that were encountered when recruiting AI for a home-and employment-based environmental health assessments, highlight major successes, and propose recommendations for future ...