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Health
and Environment in Sustainable
Development Five years
after the
Earth Summmit
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The information used for this lecture is based on the WHO report
entitled
"Health and Environment in Sustainable Development: Five years after
the Earth Summit" . The report is a contribution by WHO to
the five-year follow-up to the Earth Summit. The lecture aims at
providing:
- a concept of sustainable development;
- health-and-environment linkage;
- a concept of driving forces and pressures that create the
conditions in which environmental health threads can develop;
- some examples of environmental health problems and solutions which
will bring us closer to sustainable development.
The students should be able to understand the importance of this
linkage and the significance of "upstream" damage from the major
human-induced stresses to the environment, which subsequently affects
human well-being.
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