The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has a unique mix of qualities and challenges when it comes to the environment. It is exceptionally endowed with natural assets, with globally significant biodiversity and valuable crops, and also harbors the world s greatest carbon sink in the Amazon....

Environmental health (EH) is concerned with preventing disease, death and disability by reducing exposure to adverse environmental conditions and promoting behavioral change. It focuses on the direct and indirect causes of diseases and injuries, and taps resources inside and outside the health...

1985 hat sich der Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen (SRU) in einem Sondergutachten ausführlich mit dem Umweltproblemen der Landwirtschaft befasst. Das vorliegende Gutachten geht der Fragestellung nach, wie sich die Umweltproblematik der Landwirtschaft seit 1985 entwickelt hat und welche...