There is a growing understanding within public health, transportation engineering, and urban planning of the mechanisms by which features of the built, natural, and social environments impact physical and mental health. The World Health Organization and the U.S. Surgeon General recently announced calls to action to create and implement strategies to reduce adverse health impacts of auto depende...

As one of the primary factors of production, labor is an essential element in every nation’s economy. Investing in human capital is widely viewed as a key to sustaining increases in labor productivity and economic growth. While health is increasingly seen as an important part of human capital, environmental protection, which typically promotes health, has not been viewed through this lens. Inde...

Graz University of Technology, Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Petersgasse 12, A6 8010 Graz, Austria; Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Messeweg 11, D-38104 Braunschweig, 7 Germany, Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute, National Banana Research Program, 8 Uganda; Makerere University, Department of Agricultural Production, College of 9 Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Uganda and B...

Introduction In developing countries, livestock can be an important pathway out of poverty (FAO 2009; McDermott et al. 2010a; Rich et al. 2011). Over one billion people depend on livestock, which provide power and manure for crop production, contribute to food and nutritional security, and are a form of savings for many poor people. Livestock also make major contributions to the agricultural GD...

introductionorganizations try to have a safe and healthy work environment without any pollution and damages. healthsafety environment (hse) system is a tool for improving health, safety, and environmental conditions in allindustrial and non-industrial development programs. the system uses all human and financial resources toprovide people with a safe environment without any risk (farshad et al....

30 JULY 2010 VOL 329 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org Sustainability: A Household Word I THANK Q. WANG AND G. P. PETERS ET AL. (“China’s environmental civilian activism” and “Effects of China’s economic growth,” Letters, 14 May, p. 824) for responding to my Policy Forum, “China’s road to sustainability” (2 April, p. 50). Their Letters reiterated important forces affecting sustainability, which I have...

Focusing on environmental impact assessment as a new tool to determine the harmful effects of projects on the environment is very necessary. The establishment of cement plants in Iran is accompanied by huge investments that aim to create jobs and have others economic aspects; this trend is on the rise. However, cement plants contribute to environmental pollutions. Therefore, understanding the e...