Understanding emerging environmental health risks: A framework for responding to the unknown

Society faces risks, hazards, and crises on a seemingly daily basis. This is not new; indeed, pre‐modern societies were subjected to natural hazards that could be attributed to fate (e.g., natural disasters), and human‐made hazards considered manageable. However, late‐modern society is increasingly exposed to risks that are products of the modernization process itself (e.g., health impacts of climate change) emerging from broad changes in …