From an evolutionary perspective, environmental threats relevant for survival constantly challenged human beings. Current research suggests the evolution of a fear processing module in the brain to cope with these threats. Recently, humans increasingly encountered modern threats (e.g., guns or car accidents) in addition to evolutionary threats (e.g., snakes or predators) which presumably requir...

Aim Global conservation assessments recognize the mediterranean biome as a priority for the conservation of the world’s biodiversity. To better direct future conservation efforts in the biome, an improved understanding of the location, magnitude and trend of key threats and their relationship with species of conservation importance is needed. Location Mediterranean-climate regions in California...

Proposes that environmental degradation and pollution pose threats to health in a multitude of forms; and that hazardous effects will continue to emanate from industrial processes so long as commercial viability dictates the necessity to deposit hazardous wastes in the air, soil and water. Shows how recent research into smalland medium-sized enterprises’ approaches to environmental concerns ill...

Efforts by scientists, civil society and some politicians to sound the alarm on the threats of global warming, climate change, biodiversity damages, endemics and, more broadly, all environmental issues, seem to have resulted in an increasingly shared consensus about the need for action. Yet, such action has been particularly slow in coming and has not so far resulted in any “environmental New D...

Schafer and Kegley bring up the important issue of excessive chemicals exposure of children. However, they do not consider in depth the "cumulative and simultaneous exposures faced by children, (.) moving beyond the chemical-by-chemical approach of the past", as quoted from the US Environmental Protection Agency national agenda to protect children from environmental health threats. Existing evi...

Threats posed by new, emerging or re-emerging communicable diseases are taking a global dimension, to which the World Health Organization (WHO) Secretariat has been responding with determination since 1995. Key to the global strategy for tackling epidemics across borders is the concept of global public health surveillance, which has been expanded and formalized by WHO and its technical partners...

on farm development program is a strategy adopted for the development of iran rice growing fields in the agricultural sector. swot method was employed for studying opportunities, threats, strengths and weaknesses of on farm development program. necessary data for the research was collected, through two sets of questionnaires, from 34 experts of on farm development program in guilan province. re...

today, environmental threats are in center of important questions’ human conscience twenty-first century. these questions have attracted public opinions quit alarming and they posed extreme sensitivity to the environment on a global level. this study aimed at understanding the role of social structural factors on the gap between environmental attitudes and behavior carried out. population invol...

Health inequalities are very well documented in epidemiological research: rich people live longer and have fewer diseases than poor people. Recently, a growing amount of evidence from environmental sciences confirms that poor people are also more exposed to pollution and other environmental threats. However, research in the social sciences has shown a broad lack of awareness about health inequa...

This paper discusses the links among health, environment, and sustainable development and presents a framework that extends from the epidemiological domain to the policy domain and includes the driving forces that generate environmental pressures, creating changes in the state of the environment and eventually contributing to human exposures. Health effects are the end result of this complex ne...