Bonnie Bradford and Margaret A. Gwynne, editors
The authors explore linkages among health, development, and environmental issues, focusing on the interdependent issues of poverty, violence, excessive resource use, and irresponsible hazardous waste disposal.
Bonnie Bradford is a communications specialist at the World Bank. Margaret A. Gwynne is visiting professor in the Department of Anthropology at SUNY–Stony Brook.
"Provides compelling testimony to the economic costs incurred when the health of people and ecosystems are ignored. Inspiring evidence to what can be achieved by investing in human and ecological health."—Joan C. Martin-Brown, World Bank
"Makes clear how new approaches can work in participatory ways with low-income communities so that health, livelihoods, and environmental management are all improved."—David Satterthwaite, Environment and Urbanization