Climate Change and Global Health
Edited by Colin Butler
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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 developing countries. The book finishes with a practical discussion of action that health professionals can yet take. Read a chapter for free.
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Endorsements
"The longer we wait, the more painful and difficult it will be to turn around the global industrial machine and its effects on our planet. The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health summed up the urgency this way: "our societies face clear and potent dangers that require urgent and transformative actions to protect present and future generations". Butler's book is a passionate and valuable addition to moving this debate forwards." - The Lancet "The authors make it clear that action is urgent on purely health grounds, let alone all the other reasons. The concluding chapter, "Climate change and health: from adaptation towards a solution", reminds us that there are essential conversations for us to join and actions to be taken." - Tim Senior, The Medical Journal of Australia
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- Publisher CAB International
- Publication Date September 2014
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781780642659 / 1780642652
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 85 GBP
- Pages328
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2014
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