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Climate Change and Global Health
Colin D Butler
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Description for Climate Change and Global Health
Hardback. A ground-breaking study of the impact of climate change on human health. Featuring contributors from 17 countries, this book explores immediate and direct effects such as heat waves, secondary ones such as vector ranges and disease incidence, and long-term ("tertiary") impacts such as famine, migration and conflict. Editor(s): Butler, Colin D. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: MBNH2; RNPG; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 179 x 246 x 25. Weight in Grams: 914.
There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change will have profound and mostly harmful effects on human health. This authoritative book brings together international experts to describe both direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease incidence) impacts of climate change, set in a broad, international, economic, political and environmental context. This unique book also expands on these issues to address a third category of potential longer-term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, and conflict. This lively yet scholarly resource explores these issues fully, linking them to health in urban and rural settings in developed and ... Read more
There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change will have profound and mostly harmful effects on human health. This authoritative book brings together international experts to describe both direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease incidence) impacts of climate change, set in a broad, international, economic, political and environmental context. This unique book also expands on these issues to address a third category of potential longer-term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, and conflict. This lively yet scholarly resource explores these issues fully, linking them to health in urban and rural settings in developed and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
CABI Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Wallingford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780642659
SKU
V9781780642659
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Colin D Butler
Colin's interest in and experience of health in the global South date to the early 1980s; his interest in climate change and health to 1989, the year he co-founded the NGOs BODHI US and BODHI Australia, each of which is particularly active in South Asia. Colin contributed to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2002-05) as a co-ordinating lead author for the ... Read more
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