Climate Change and Global Health: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects (2)

By: Richard Dennis and Mary Robinson and Pei Yu and Robert White and Philip Weinstein and Andy Morse and Peter Stoett and Ruth Irwin and Tari Haahtela and Tilman Ruff and Martin McKee and Stewart Sutherland and Tord Kjellstrom and Cyril Caminade and Dr Nicholas H. Ogden and Will Steffen and Glen Mola and Ågot Aakra and Khaled Abass and Robyn Alders and Kofi Amegah and Janetrix Hellen Amuguni and Gulrez Shah Azhar and Katherine Barraclough and Barbara Berner and Alex Blum and Justin Borevitz and Menno Bouma and Devin C. Bowles and Mark Braidwood and Anne Lise Brantsæter and Katrina Charles and Fiona Charlson and Moumita Sett Chatterjee and Matthew Chersich and Rebecca Colvin and Namukolo Covic and Christopher B Daniels and Cybele Dey and Hubert Dirven and Yuming Guo and Ivan C Hanigan and Andrew Harmer and Budi Haryanto and Dr Kerryn Higgs and Susanne Hyllestad and Christine Instanes and Ollie Jay and Solveig Jore and Ke Ju and Marit Låg and Jason Kw Lee and Shanshan Li and Irakli Loladze and Rosemary A. McFarlane and Helle Margrete Meltzer and Juliet Nabyonga-Orem and Johan Øvrevik and Rebecca Patrick and Rezanur Rahaman and Delia Randolph and Shilpa Rao and Arja Rautio and Subhashis Sahu and Jonathan Samet and Photini Sinnis and Julie P Smith and Jessica Stanhope and Cathrine Thomsen and Collin Tukuitonga and May Van Schalkwyk and Gro Dehli Villanger and Sue Wareham and Bo Wen and Kirsty Wild and Kate Wingett and Alistair Woodward and Caradee Y. Wright and Yao Wu

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Synopsis: There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving and championing a third ('tertiary') category of longer term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, conflict and collapse. This edition has an expanded foundation, with new chapters discussing nuclear war, population and limits to growth, among others. This lively yet scholarly resource explores all these issues, finishing with a practical discussion of avenues to reform. As Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, states in the foreword: 'Climate change interacts with many undesirable aspects of human behaviour, including inequality, racism and other manifestations of injustice. Climate change policies, as practised by most countries in the global North, not only interact with these long-standing forms of injustice, but exemplify a new form, of startling magnitude.' The book is dedicated to Tony McMichael, Will Steffen and Maurice King. This book will be invaluable for students, post-graduates, researchers and policy-makers in public health, climate change and medicine.

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Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 520 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781800620025
Related ISBNs:: 9781800620001
Publisher:: CABI
Date of Addition:: 08/27/24
Copyrighted By:: CAB International
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Earth Sciences, Medicine
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Colin Butler
Edited by:: Dr Kerryn Higgs

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