Environmental Health and Protection

Paul A. Locke; Henry Falk; Christopher S. Kochtitzky; Christine P. Bump

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195301489.003.0020

Environmental Health and Protection

Paul A. Locke, Henry Falk, Christopher S. Kochtitzky, Christine P. Bump

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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This chapter provides a context for the practice of environmental health law. Public health law practitioners in the field of environmental health are faced with a complex legal landscape. Environmental health law spans portions of both the field of environmental protection and public health law. Public health laws traditionally have provided noncoercive authorities to state, local, and federal agencies and are useful in building an evidence base for change and fostering partnerships for cooperative ventures. In contrast, environmental protection laws are media-based and provide strong coercive authorities to federal and state agencies pursuing environmental health improvement. Attorneys pursuing environmental health improvement efforts have at their disposal a broad and extensive set of legal tools that, when deployed appropriately, are adaptable to address most of today's environmental health problems.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Law in Public Health Practice
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199863822
ISBN (Print)	9780195301489
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195301489.003.0020
State	Published - Sep 1 2009

Keywords

Environmental law
Environmental policy
Health policy
Legal practice
Public health

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General Medicine

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