Development of Environmental Health Criteria for Urban Planning

Book : Development of Environmental Health Criteria for Urban Planning

Language : English

Library : Health-Safety-Environment

Publish Place : Geneva

Volume : 511

Publish Date : 00 1972

Publisher : World Health Organization WHO

Book Type : Report

Book Number : 3012

INDEX


CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. General considerations
3. Important environmental healthfactors in urban planning
3.1 General
3.2 Components of urban planning
3.2.1 Land use zoning
3.2.2 Residential areas
3.2.3 Industrial sites
3.2.4 Circulation
3.2.5 Utilities and services
3.2.6 Miscellaneous considerations
4. Some available environmental health criteria for human planning.
4.1 Air resources conservation and air pollution control . .
4.1.1 International criteria .............
4.1.2 National criteria ...............
4.2 Water resources development and utilities .......
4.3 Water pollution control ...............
4.4 Land resources and pollution control .........
4.5 Control of urban noise ...............
4.6 Control of radiation .................
4.7 Control of arthropods and rodents in urban areas . . .
4.8 Planning of the residential environment in urban areas .
5. Application of existing environmental health criteria ...........
5.1 The utilization of existing criteria .................
5.2 Special training .........................
5.3 The dissemination of information on environmental health criteria in urban planning .........................
6. The establishment of new environmental health criteria for urban planning .
7. Principal recommendations .......................
Annex. WHO publications dealing with environmental health criteria for urban planning ............................