Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- Part I: Insights from the discussion of related topics -- Chapter 1: Global, regional and local ecological change: Ethical aspects of public health research and practice -- Contextualizing this chapter -- Objectives -- The epidemiologist and epidemiology -- On the challenges of working in this field -- The influence of dominant paradigms -- Questions of conscious and subconscious biases that influence scientists -- Why ethics in the professions? -- Core values and mission statements for the professions -- The scientific ethic -- Bioethics extended to eco-epidemiology -- Classical techniques that skew results: from biased methods to junk science -- Governance amid ideological influences in a globalizing world -- Ethics complemented with virtuous traits of character -- The way forward -- References -- Chapter 2: Environmental ethics and environmental policies -- Introduction -- The originality and relevance of environmental ethics -- Approaches to the problem -- From environmental ethics to environmental policies -- Global needs concerning protection of the environment from ionizing radiation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Justice, environmental health laws and relations between people -- Introduction -- Generic legal strategies to protect the public health -- Toxicology -- What should be done? -- Justice -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Principles -- Chapter 4: A common morality approach to environmental health ethics -- A global ethical basis for environmental health -- The four core principles -- The four additional principles -- The four procedural principles -- The importance of balancing -- References -- Chapter 5: Bioethics, the Precautionary Principle and future generations -- Introduction