In this assignment you will select one region of the world with known environmental issues and create a timeline of the events in this area going back no more than 200 years. For example you could choose to focus on the Gulf Coast in the United States and its history of hurricanes floods and the recent oil spill; the Love Canal disaster in New York; the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in Ukraine; or Canadas tar-sands in Alberta. Each of these areas has a history of environmental problems that have impacted populations and their health drastically.
To help identify a region with known environmental events for this assignment consult your textbook the WHO Public Health and Environment Programs Web site and the UNEPs Web site. Please be sure to support your public health analysis of these environmental issues with evidence-based research.
Using this timeline of events create a presentation analyzing the environmental issues in this region including the following topics/issues:
Be sure to include detailed speaker notes for each slide to elaborate on what you would say while presenting your material.
Develop a 2025-slide presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.ppt.