1. Introduces students to current and emerging environmental hazards to human and related ecosystem health.
2. Explains detrimental policy changes of existing policies and recently developed policies that impact the health of the environment and that of communities.
3. Presents a perspective for global sources of pollution and how international actions have emerged for control of environmental hazards such as climate change and global air pollution.
4. Includes foundation lectures, case studies, and practice questions to help create student-led discussions for both in-class and homework assignments.
5. Describes the integrated One Health concept and critically examines the interconnectedness of human- and ecosystem health.
6. Written by environmental health experts with a long teaching career on policy and public health.