Timeline Environmental H
Timeline Environmental H
Timeline Environmental H
•pollution
•toxic chemicals
Prehistoric •John Snow •protected areas
•religious laws •sustainable
and Modern •Ignaz Philipp Industrial
•importance of Semmelweis development
Ancient hygiene Times Revolution •global
•Louis Pasteur
Civilization environmmental
hazards
Industrial Revolution
Prehistoric and Ancient Times
Modern Times
the pollution coming from the
religious laws (Old and John Snow - discovered the factories
source of cholera was a toxic chemical exposures were
New Testament & Koran) contaminated water persistent
focuses on the dead Public Health Act (1848) - to
bodies as dirty regulate environmental health risks
Ignaz Phillip - discovered the declaration of protected areas
use of hand disinfection in Silent Sping by Rachel Carson
importance of hygiene obstetrical clinics to lessen UN Conference on the Human
was emphasized in terms the case of childbed fever Environment (1972) at Stockholm,
Sweden
of praying, taking a bath World Commission on Environment
and burying the dead Louis Pasteur - discovered & Development (Bruntland
that diseases was caused by Commission) - coined sustainable
development
microorganisms
global environmental hazards (like
climate change,and stratospheric
ozone depletion)