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The Natural Environment as an Object of Public Health Law: Addressing Health Outcomes of Climate Change through Intersections with Environmental and Agricultural Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2021

Jill Krueger  and
Betsy Lawton
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Abstract

The power to change the natural environment has received relatively little attention in public health law, yet is a core concern within environmental and agricultural law. Examples from environmental and agricultural law may inform efforts to change the natural environment in order to reduce the health impacts of climate change. Public health lawyers who attend to the natural environment may succeed in elevating health concerns within the environmental and agricultural law spheres, while gaining new tools for their public health law toolbox.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 48 , Issue 4: Climate Change and the Legal, Ethical, and Health Issues Facing Healthcare and Public Health Systems , Winter 2020 , pp. 664 - 680
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2020

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