Public Health Linkages with Sustainability Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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Ten years later, the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development provided an opportunity for identification and adoption of concrete steps and targets to implement aspects of Agenda 21. As world leaders prepared to gather again in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, to assess and reaffirm the importance of the world's progress toward these efforts, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop to inform the policies that would be discussed at the conference.
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The presentations covered alternative frameworks of sustainability in which health and public health are more centrally considered across the spectrum of sustainability policies and decisions. In particular, the workshop emphasized the intersections between sustainability and toxicology, noncommunicable diseases, energy options and air quality, food and water resources, occupational and childhood health, and the role of climate change and urbanization across these topic areas.
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1992. Report of the United Nations conference on environment and development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-14 June 1992.
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