Health and environment

The course covers the learning outcomes of understanding legacies and inheritance, altering the environment, ecology, changes in species abundance, pollution, and population growth. The course teaches about habitats, food webs, human impacts on species, pollution effects on biodiversity, and philosophical considerations. The teaching method includes lectures, readings, and discussions. The intended audience for this course is individuals interested in the intersection of health and the environment.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Legacies and inheritance
• 1 Legacies and inheritance
• 2 Altering the environment
• 2 Altering the environment
• 3 Ecology: some background information
• 3 Ecology: some background information
• 3.1 Habitat
• 3.2 Food webs
• 4 Changes in relative abundance of species
• 4 Changes in relative abundance of species
• 4.1 Human predation and extinctions
• 4.2 'Biological control'
• 4.3 Dutch elm disease
• 4.4 Genetic diversity and mass extinctions
• 4.5 The Kew Gardens Millennium Seed Bank Appeal
• 4.6 Plants as medicines
• 4.7 Summary
• 5 Pollution
• 5 Pollution
• 5.1 Pollution and loss of biodiversity
• 5.2 Air pollution
• 5.3 Global warming
• 5.4 The ozone hole
• 5.5 Indoor pollutants
• 5.6 Land and water pollution
• 6 Population growth
• 6 Population growth
• 7 Some philosophical issues
• 7 Some philosophical issues
• Conclusion
• 9 course questions
• 9 course questions
• References
• Acknowledgements