Climate change and global health / edited by Professor Colin D. Butler, Faculty of Health, the University of Canberra, University Drive, Bruce, ACT 2617, Australia.
Publisher:
CABI,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xxiv, 303 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
Introduction. Devin C. Bowles, Mark Braidwood, Colin D. Butler. Foreword / Andy Haines -- Introduction. Unholy Trinity : climate change, conflict and ill health / Will Steffen -- Climate change and global health / A.J. (Tony) McMichael -- Primary effects. Heat related and cold related mortality and morbidity / Shakoor Hajat, Lucy Telfar Barnard -- Occupational heat effects : a global health and economic threat due to climate change ; Measuring and estimating occupational heat exposure and effects in relation to climate change : 'hothaps' tools for impact assessments and prevention approaches / Tord Kjellstrom ... [et. al.] -- Climate extremes, disasters and health / Yasushi Honda ... [et. al.] -- Secondary effects. Global warming and malaria in tropical highlands : an estimation of Ethiopia's 'unmitigated' annual malaria burden in the 21st century / Menno Jan Bouma, Mercedes Pascual -- Dengue : distrivution and transmission dynamics with climate change / Hilary Bambrick, Simon Hales -- Lyme disease and climate change / Nick H. Ogden -- Climate change and human parasitic disease / Haylee J. Weaver -- Impacts of climate change on allergens and allergic diseases : knowledge and highlights from two decades of research / Paul J. Beggs -- Wildfires, air pollution, climate change and health / Haruka Morita, Patrick Kinney -- Tertiary effects. Famine, hunger, society and climate change / Colin D. Butler -- Moving to a better life? Climate, migration and population health / Devin C. Bowles, Rafael Reuveny, Colin D. Butler -- Unholy Trinity : climate change, conflict and ill health / Devin C. Bowles, Mark Braidwood, Colin D. Butler. Climate change and health : from adaptation towards a solution / Climate change and health in east Asia : a food in health security perspective / Colin D. Butler ... [et. al.]. Climate change and health in South Asian countries / Manpreet Singh, Mala Rao -- Climate change and global health : a Latin American perspective / Ulisses Confalonieri ... [et. al. ] -- Small island states : Canaries in the coal mine of climate change and health / Elizabeth G. Hanna, Lachlan McIver -- Climate change adaptation to infectious diseases in Europe / Jan C. Semenza -- Climate change and health in the Artic / Alan J. Parkinson, Birgitta Evengård -- Climate change and health in Africa / Colin D. Butler ... [et. al.] -- Zoonotic diseases and their drivers in Africa / Delia Grace, Bernard Bett -- Cross-cutting issues. Climate change, food and energy : politics and co-benefits / Ole Faergeman -- Death of a Mwana : biomass fuels, poverty, gender and climate change / Bianca Brijnath -- Mental health, cognition and the challenge of climate change / Colin D. Butler ... [et. al. ] -- Climate change, housing and public health / Jouni J.K. Jaakkola, Adeladza K. Amegah -- Health in new socio-economic pathways for climate change research / Kristie L. Ebi -- Transformation. Health activism and the challenge of climate change / Colin D. Butler, Sue Wareham -- Climate change and health : from adaptation towards a solution / Colin D. Butler ... [et. al.].
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