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Joel C. Yelin
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BIOGRAPHY

Research Assistant, Liberal Arts and Sciences Institute, Rowan University. He contributed an article on “Environmental Health” to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Governance (2007), and a version of this article was used for his Britannica entry on this topic.

Primary Contributions (1)
Environmental health, area of study in the field of public health that is concerned with assessing and controlling the impacts of humans on their environment and the impacts of the environment on humans. The environment, including its vegetation, other animals, and natural and historic landmarks,…
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Publications (1)
Encyclopedia of Governance - 2 volume set
Encyclopedia of Governance - 2 volume set (December 2006)
The Encyclopedia of Governance provides a one-stop point of reference for the diverse and complex topics surrounding governance for the period between the collapse of the post-war consensus and the rise of neoliberal regimes in the 1970s. This comprehensive resource concentrates primarily on topics related to the changing nature and role of the state in recent times and the ways in which these roles have been conceptualized in the areas of Political Science, Public Administration, Political Economy,...
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