Ensuring Environmental Health in Postindustrial Cities Workshop Summary (2003) / Chapter Skim
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But these lessons apply as well to virtually any region whether post-industrial, preindustrial, or just plain industrial determined to face up to its environmentalhealth issues and do something about them in order to better serve its people and ensure a viable social and economic future. Rather than summarize here the symposium's proceedings in a speakerby-speaker or subject-by-subject fashion that is the purpose, after all, of the succeeding pages we thought it more useful in this Summary to briefly characterize the several cross-cutting themes that emerged, from virtually speaker after speaker, and that clearly must be central to regions' strategies for achieving sound environmental health: Take advantage of the genuine interest and concern of the general public and decision makers.
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Similarly, there has been progress in alleviating federallevel fragmentation. This meeting, for instance, saw the head of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, the head of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registries, and the head of CDC's Center for Environmental Health all in the same room an occurrence that would have been highly unlikely 5 or 10 years ago.
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More research is needed. This predictable statement could well be a macro on most researchers' computers, but in the case of environmental health it's exceptionally valid, and not just regarding basic research.
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