[ensu] Thur March 3 IES/GOEHU Environment & Health Seminar

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:46:11 -0500 (EST)
Institute for Environmental Studies & 
Gage Occupational and Environmental Health Unit 
ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH SEMINAR
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THURSDAY MARCH 3, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Room 113, Koffler Institute for Pharmacy Management 
569 Spadina Ave., at Bancroft Ave., north of College
St.
(west door on Spadina Ave. locked; please use east
door) 
 
ROBERT PAEHLKE, Professor, Environmental and Resource
Studies Program,
Trent University

"ENVIRONMENTALISM, SUSTAINABILITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH"
(abstract below)

No registration required; all are welcome.  

For more information, please contact 
Mona El-Haddad (416-978-6526; m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx) 

Please visit www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars.htm for
abstracts and 
updates.
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ABSTRACT:
This lecture is a review of some of the connections
between the 
analyses
and actions of the environmental movement and public
health outcomes.
It will begin with the health implications of some
traditional
conservation and environmental concerns: air
pollution, industrial
chemicals and pesticides (and the food system as a
whole). 
    The larger part of the lecture considers the
evolution of classic
environmentalism into a broader green perspective
through the adoption
of the concept of sustainability.  Sustainability
analysis, as 
discussed
in "emocracy's Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity,
and the Global
Economy" Paehlke, R., MIT Press, 2004), is essentially
the study of how
societies might produce greater social well-being
while gradually
reducing resource inputs extracted from nature.  It is
possible that
extracting fewer resources from nature would have
negative health
effects if there were a decline in prosperity, but
such a decline is 
not
certain.  Sustainability analysis thus offers
important insights into
public health outcomes including the complex
relationship between
societal wealth and societal health, the connections
between income
disparities and health outcomes, and the health
advantages of more
sustainable cities. 
    The lecture concludes with a brief look at the
possible health
effects associated with two very current environmental
concerns: the
long range transport of persistent organic pollutants
(POPs) and 
climate
change.  The latter effects are, of course, highly
speculative but 
worth
addressing nonetheless given the amount of time it
would take to slow
human induced climate warming without significant
economic disruptions
(that would in turn have very real health effects of
their own).
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REMAINING SEMINARS THIS TERM (see website above for
abstracts):

THU MARCH 10, 2005
MIRIAM DIAMOND, Professor, Department of Geography,
University of
Toronto
"Tracing contaminant sources and potential health
effects: the Toronto
experience"

THU MARCH 17, 2005
RON STAGER, Environmentalist, SENES Consultants,
Richmond Hill, Ontario
"Emissions, dispersion and deposition modeling in
environmental
applications"

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[ensu] Thur March 3 IES/GOEHU Environment & Health Seminar

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