Environment and Public Health

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic relationship between environmental factors and public health, providing both theoretical insights and practical solutions. As environmental challenges such as climate change, pollution, and natural disasters increasingly threaten global public health, this book integrates foundational theories with empirical evidence to address these pressing issues. It covers a wide range of topics including the theoretical and methodological foundations for understanding the nexus between environment and public health, exploring historical perspectives and research directions. The book examines the health impacts of environmental hazards and disasters, focusing on vulnerable regions and populations with highlighting climate change associated public health challenges. Furthermore, the book shifts to the environmental pollution and public health challenges, offering sustainable solutions to mitigate environmental pollutions. The book also delves into the intersection of climate extremes, food security, and nutrition, focusing on how vulnerable countries can build resilient food systems to combat food insecurity and malnutrition. It emphasizes the role of cutting-edge technologies like geospatial tools, artificial intelligence, machine learning (ML) and advanced environment and public health data cloud to make sustainable solutions. By integrating diverse regional perspectives, the book presents actionable strategies for building resilient, sustainable environment and public health. Designed for researchers, policymakers, and environmental health practitioners, this book serves as an essential guide for understanding the profound global environmental challenges and public health burdens, learning the advance tools and techniques to delineate such issues and resilient strategies

Dr. Avijit Roy is a State Aided College Teacher in the Department of Geography at Malda College in Malda, West Bengal, India. He teaches courses related to Population Geography, Gender Studies, Regional Planning, Urban Geography, Social and Cultural Geography. Dr. Roy completed his Ph. D. in Geography from University of Gour Banga. He conducts research in a range of settings across the globe. His current research interests lie in women's sexual & reproductive health, maternal morbidity & mortality, maternal & newborn health, geriatrics, healthcare services, child marriage, violence against women, public health, and spatial analysis. Mr. Margubur Rahaman, a trained women's health researcher, specializes in family planning, reproductive health, maternal & child health, and other women's health rights. He holds the position of Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai. His primary focus revolves around extending interventions to the most underprivileged and vulnerable populations while assessing national initiatives aimed at enhancing maternal and child health. Mr. Rahaman boasts a portfolio of over 20 publications renowned for their contribution to issues related to population, health, and development on an international scale. Additionally, Mr. Rahaman is an active member of several professional associations, including the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population in France and the Asian Population Association in Thailand. Dr. Pradip Chouhan is a Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal, India. Earlier, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His areas of research interest are fertility behaviour, public health, maternal health, and child health. He is actively engaged in teaching and research in Population Geography for nearly two decades and has published more than 50 research papers in Scopus and Web of Science-indexed journals, 3 edited books, and authored 1 book. Dr. Farooq Ahmed is an Associate Professor at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur. He is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist and public health researcher. He earned a doctorate and conducted ethnographic research on the complex interplay of political, economic, and cultural determinants of illness and maternal-child malnutrition in Pakistan. His interests include political economy, social justice, health-seeking behavior, and social determinants of public health and nutrition.