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The link between modern lifestyles and increasing levels of chronic heart disease, obesity, stress and poor mental health is a concern across the world. The cost of dealing with these conditions places a large burden on national public health budgets so that policymakers are increasingly looking at prevention as a cost-effective alternative to medical treatment. Attention is turning towards interactions between the environment and lifestyles. Exploring the relationships between health, natural environments in general, and forests in particular, this groundbreaking book is the outcome of the European Union’s COST Action E39 ‘Forests, Trees and Human Health and Wellbeing’, and draws together work carried out over four years by scientists from 25 countries working in the fields of forestry, health, environment and social sciences. While the focus is primarily on health priorities defined within Europe, this volume explicitly draws also on research from North America and elsewhere and will have relevance worldwide. A state-of-the-art analysis of the global research on the topic of forests and human health, a key contribution of the book is its synthesis of material across both disciplines and nations, providing a vital reference for researchers in forestry, health, natural resource management and environmental policy. Currently the only unified body of work on this topic, the book will also be an important tool for those working in both health and environment policy and practice.

Environmental health -- Europe. --- Environmental health. --- Forests and forestry -- Health aspects -- Europe. --- Forests and forestry -- Health aspects. --- Environmental health --- Forests and forestry --- Geographic Locations --- Plants --- Health Occupations --- Eukaryota --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Geographicals --- Environmental Health --- Trees --- Europe --- Organisms --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Forestry --- Industrial Medicine --- Health aspects --- Recreation areas --- Health aspects. --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Hygienic aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Life sciences. --- Forestry. --- Life Sciences. --- Agriculture --- Natural resources --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Logging --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Forests and forestry.

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This book examines the policy and politics of two health risks, which have recently become prominent social issues in many countries. One is the issue of asbestos as an environmental risk to humans, and another is that of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease as an animal disease, and of its variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) as a human food risk. Employing a set of analytical frameworks in political science, each case study explores how the issues emerged, agendas got set, alternatives were chosen, and policies were implemented. Through the analysis, it is examined how safety and public reassurance were pursued in the countries studied (Japan, the UK, France the USA, and Korea). Exploration of the successes and failures in their efforts discloses the key elements to successful health risk management.

Asbestos -- Environmental aspects. --- Asbestos -- Toxicology. --- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- Prevention -- Government policy. --- Environmental Health -- Europe. --- Environmental health -- Government policy. --- Environmental Health -- Japan. --- Environmental health -- Political aspects. --- Environmental Health -- United States. --- Environmental health --- Asbestos --- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy --- Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform --- Public Policy --- Food Supply --- Japan --- Europe --- Environmental Health --- United States --- Silicates --- North America --- Social Control Policies --- Geographic Locations --- Health Occupations --- Prion Diseases --- Cattle Diseases --- Food Industry --- Far East --- Industry --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Policy --- Neurodegenerative Diseases --- Minerals --- Geographicals --- Silicic Acid --- Social Control, Formal --- Americas --- Asia --- Central Nervous System Infections --- Animal Diseases --- Silicon Dioxide --- Social Sciences --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Inorganic Chemicals --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Nervous System Diseases --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Sociology --- Diseases --- Health Care --- Silicon Compounds --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Political aspects --- Government policy --- Environmental aspects --- Toxicology --- Prevention --- Food --- Management. --- Safety measures. --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Health aspects --- Medicine. --- Political science. --- Nutrition. --- Environmental management. --- Environmental health. --- Sociology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Medicine/Public Health, general. --- Political Science. --- Sociology, general. --- Environmental Management. --- Environmental Health. --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment