Abstract
Environmental science is concerned with the study of natural cycles and systems and their component natural processes. The state of the environment can be described in terms of fields (§I.4) that represent spatiotemporal distributions of natural processes. It is welldocumented that the state of the environment affects the state of human health in the following way.
“The whole is more than the sum of the parts”.
Aristotle, Metaphysica 1045a, 10f
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Christakos, G., Hristopulos, D.T. (1998). Environmental Exposure Fields and Their Health Effects. In: Spatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling: A Tractatus Stochasticus . Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2811-8_2
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