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Stephen Verderber
Architecture and Health Equity in an Imperiled World

How the thoughtful reimagining of health-centric built environments both locally and globally can better serve vulnerable populations and reduce health disparities in a climate-threatened world.As climate…

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Ian Rockett
Hidden Suicides and Fatal Overdoses

Critically examines the chronic undercounting and increasing misclassification of suicide in the United States--and why this issue matters.In Hidden Suicides and Fatal Overdoses, Ian Rockett confronts the…

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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Rosalind Malcolm, John Pointing
Statutory Nuisance

Now in its third edition, Statutory Nuisance: Law and Practice is the definitive text on the law and practice of statutory nuisance. The law of statutory nuisance has deep historical roots closely connect…

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Malcolm Harris
What's Left

"Climate change is the unifying crisis of our time. But the scale of the problem can be paralyzing, especially when corporations are actively staving off changes that could save the planet but which …

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Chika Watanabe
Play to Survive

We live in a fragile world. This much is evident as stories abound of natural disasters that wipe out communities in an instant. How can we survive the future on such a planet, amid intensifying climate c…

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National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Health And Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Committee on a Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Behavioral Health Disorders
Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders

Mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders, including mental illness and substance use disorders, affect every U.S. population group, community, and neighborhood. Existing infrastructure focuses mo…

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Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee
In Covid's Wake

Featured on the New York Times' The Daily podcast and CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS What our failures during the pandemic cost us, and why we must do better**The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobi…

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Maxime Polleri
Radioactive Governance

Examines the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disasterThe 2011 Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear disaster was the worst industrial nuclear catastrophe to hit Japan. It was a major event, rated at the highest s…

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Chika Watanabe
Play to Survive

We live in a fragile world. This much is evident as stories abound of natural disasters that wipe out communities in an instant. How can we survive the future on such a planet, amid intensifying climate c…

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Nigel M de S Cameron
Dr. Koop

When Ronald Reagan chose C. Everett Koop to be Surgeon General of the United States in 1981, liberal politicians, women's groups, and even the public health community opposed the nomination because of his…

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Ala Stanford
Take Care of Them Like My Own

The founder of the Black Doctors Consortium shares her "inspiring story of overcoming mind-numbing obstacles" (Will Smith), highlighting the devastating racial injustices in our healthcare syste…

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Building Resilient and Healthy Cities: A Guide to Environmental Sustainability and Well-being

This book presents a number of research papers that discuss how green urbanism is connected to promoting healthier living conditions. This is to reduce the impact of environmental changes including climat…

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Peter Cox
Anthropocene Mobilities

International development expert Peter Cox shows how opting for more physically active forms of transport shapes us positively as people, which in turn helps combat climate change, poor global health, and…

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Noah Theriault
A Forest of Dreams

"After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, the Philippines became the first country in Asia to codify Indigenous rights. This hard-fought reform aimed to protect the ancestral lands of the archipe…

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Cass R Sunstein
Climate Justice

The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard of---and what it means.If you're injuring someone, you should stop---and pay for the damage you've caused. Why does this simple prop…

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Comprehensive Evaluation of Environmental Management Policies and Technologies

This book integrates value balance, material balance and energy balance into the interaction model of socioeconomic activities and the environment, providing a comprehensive environmental policy and techn…

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Handbook of Global Health, Security, and War

An insightful and contemporary review of current global health threats and their implications for security and stabilityIn the Handbook of Global Health, Security, and War, Professors Martin Bricknell and…

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Fabian Holt
Organize or Burn

A successful political playbook for fighting climate change and expanding democracy from the New York socialist movement Climate inaction is already causing widespread suffering and devastation around the…

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Ming Hu
Embodied Carbon

The global implications surrounding embodied carbon - the total greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production, transportation, assembly, and deconstruction of building materials - are often over…

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