Human Health and Ocean Pollution

• Main Authors: Philip J. Landrigan (Author), John J. Stegeman (Author), Lora E. Fleming (Author), Denis Allemand (Author), Donald M. Anderson (Author), Lorraine C. Backer (Author), Françoise Brucker-Davis (Author), Nicolas Chevalier (Author), Lilian Corra (Author), Dorota Czerucka (Author), Marie-Yasmine Dechraoui Bottein (Author), Barbara Demeneix (Author), Michael Depledge (Author), Dimitri D. Deheyn (Author), Charles J. Dorman (Author), Patrick Fénichel (Author), Samantha Fisher (Author), Françoise Gaill (Author), François Galgani (Author), William H. Gaze (Author), Laura Giuliano (Author), Philippe Grandjean (Author), Mark E. Hahn (Author), Amro Hamdoun (Author), Philipp Hess (Author), Bret Judson (Author), Amalia Laborde (Author), Jacqueline McGlade (Author), Jenna Mu (Author), Adetoun Mustapha (Author), Maria Neira (Author), Rachel T. Noble (Author), Maria Luiza Pedrotti (Author), Christopher Reddy (Author), Joacim Rocklöv (Author), Ursula M. Scharler (Author), Hariharan Shanmugam (Author), Gabriella Taghian (Author), Jeroen A. J. M. van de Water (Author), Luigi Vezzulli (Author), Pál Weihe (Author), Ariana Zeka (Author), Hervé Raps (Author), Patrick Rampal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Pollution - unwanted waste released to air, water, and land by human activity - is the largest environmental cause of disease in the world today. It is responsible for an estimated nine million premature deaths per year, enormous economic losses, erosion of human capital, and degradation...