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Climate Change and Global Health
Colin Butler
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Description for Climate Change and Global Health
Paperback. Now in paperback, with an additional chapter updating key changes affecting climate change and health through 2015, culminating with UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon's hopeful comment "What was once unthinkable is now unstoppable". Editor(s): Butler, Colin. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: MBNH2; MBS; RNPG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 612.
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
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
Wallingford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780648583
SKU
V9781780648583
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Colin Butler
Colin D. Butler co-founded the NGO Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health and Insight (BODHI). He is Professor of Public Health at the University of Canberra and a Visiting Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University.
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