Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21st Century (2001) / Chapter Skim
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Human Health and the 'Built' Environment
Human Health and the 'Built' Environment
Pages 18-27
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Clearly it is at the community level that many of the most important aspects of environmental health are being addressed. According to several workshop speakers, academic scientists must learn to convert the concerns of the community into research that is responsive; that is, they must actually work with the community in doing the research, hiring local people, creating a citizen's advisory panel, and developing a research agenda.
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Corporate campuses should provide people with natural daylight and fresh air deliv~red directly to their breathing zone under their own control. Buildings can be designed that make more energy than they need to operate with solar collectors and a living machine waste treanne~nt plant.
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For example, in New Jersey, brownfields development has actually enhanced environmental quality and saved local governments money by reserving fiscally beneficial open space. With the threat of urban and suburban sprawl, smart growth encourages retaining communities and enabling the preservation of selected open space, while allowing the development of urban centers.
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COHERENCE IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT When talking about healthy people, healthy homes, and healthy communities, the environmental justice framework is a good place to start. The environment is where we live, work, play, and go to school, as well as comprising the physical and natural world (Figure 4.3~.
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ets of intense poverty in the South Bronx in Mindy Ful/ilove which the demolition of housing, followed by the closing of city and municipal services, led to the relocation of intravenous drug users to other parts of the city. The resulting social disruption increased risky health behaviors.
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+__ ' . :: I.., ..., ..,.—...'.,.,' FIGU~ 4.4 Dust-induced relocation destroys communities and has profound effects on human health SOURCE: Environmental Justice Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University.
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Natural Capitalism, the title of a book by Paul Hawked, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins (1999) , defines an environmentally and socially restorative way of doing business as if nature and people were properly valued.
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Energy is similar: our cars use only 1 percent of their fuel energy to move the driver, our buildings are a few percent as efficient as the laws of physics permit, and our power stations throw away waste heat equal to Japan's total energy use for everything. Yet highly integrated design can make buildings 10-fold more energy efficient and usually cheaper to construct.
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By design, urbanists too can treat their cities' formidable economic, social, and ecological needs not as competing priorities to be traded off, but rather as interlinked design elements with synergies to be captured. By using integrated design, early adopters of natural capitalist principles are finding striking gains in short-term profitability and competitive advantage and the most exciting places to work.
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HUMAN HEALTH AND THE "BUILT"ENFIRONMENT 27 tic look at the entire built environment and the social issues involved with it. Lovins highlighted the need for multidisciplinary approaches that go beyond the usual boundaries of public health, urban planning, engineering, and design.
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