Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
ISSN
2375-835X
Publisher
American Society of Law & Medicine
Language
en-US
Abstract
When scholars and policymakers think about the relationship between public health and environmental law and policy, they likely think first about controlling pollution and other toxic substances. As other articles have amply demonstrated, water pollution, air pollution, and other environmental toxins can have significant deleterious effects on the public's health. Scholars rightly pay serious attention to these relationships, and policymakers wisely devise methods and strategies to ameliorate the public health risks posed by these polluting substances.
Although pollution control might be the most obvious and important intersection between environmental policy and public health, legal and policy decisions regarding the management and preservation of the nation's natural resources potentially also significantly affect the public's health. Preserving plant and animal species, allocating water resources, and managing the nation's public lands, just to name a few examples, all potentially bear on matters of public health and safety.
Recommended Citation
Jay D. Wexler,
Parks as Gyms? Recreational Paradigms and Public Health in the National Parks
,
in
30
American Journal of Law & Medicine
155
(2004).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1703
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