Abstract

Changes in environmental quality, such as air or water pollution, affect human health, and tomes have been written to describe these one-way relationships. When classes of environmental degradation are seen from an ecosystem perspective, where humans are an important component of that system, and where they instigate and respond to the effects of that environmental degradation, a more realistic perspective of the relationships can be seen. Reviewing relevant literature for dryland salinity in southwestern Australia, Jardine et al. provide such a perspective. They compile the human health consequences of these degrading processes, and produce a conceptual model useful for practitioners in the areas of environmental management and public health.