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While the future of environmental health is discussed, the chapter also focuses on why change needs to occur as it delves into the problems that are happening now in the world.
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Zolnikov, T.R. (2018). Future Directions in Environmental Health. In: Autoethnographies on the Environment and Human Health. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69026-1_11
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