Climate Change and Global Health (eBook)

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects

Colin Butler, Kerryn Higgs (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 2. Auflage
520 Seiten
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-80062-002-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This new edition provides a substantially updated, authoritative, critical and yet accessible perspective on public health aspects of climate change, including chapters on "cross-cutting" issues (e.g. mental health) and the impacts on several regions, including China, Africa and South Asia.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.8.2024
• Co-Autor: Ågot Aakra, Khaled Abass, Robyn Alders, Kofi Amegah, Janetrix Hellen Amuguni, Gulrez Shah Azhar, Katherine Barraclough, Barbara Berner, Alex Blum, Justin Borevitz, Menno Bouma, Devin C. Bowles, Mark Braidwood, Anne Lise Brantsæter, Cyril Caminade, Katrina Charles, Fiona Charlson, Moumita Sett Chatterjee, Matthew Chersich, Rebecca Colvin, Namukolo Covic, Christopher B Daniels, Richard Dennis, Cybele Dey, Hubert Dirven, Yuming Guo, Tari Haahtela, Ivan C Hanigan, Andrew Harmer, Budi Haryanto, Kerryn Higgs, Susanne Hyllestad, Christine Instanes, Ruth Irwin, Ollie Jay, Solveig Jore, Ke Ju, Tord Kjellstrom, Marit Låg, Jason KW Lee, Shanshan Li, Irakli Loladze, Rosemary A. McFarlane, Martin McKee, Helle Margrete Meltzer, Glen Mola, Andy Morse, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Nicholas H. Ogden, Johan Øvrevik, Rebecca Patrick, Rezanur Rahaman, Delia Randolph, Shilpa Rao, Arja Rautio, Mary Robinson, Tilman Ruff, Subhashis Sahu, Jonathan Samet, Photini Sinnis, Julie P Smith, Jessica Stanhope, Will Steffen, Peter Stoett, Stewart Sutherland, Cathrine Thomsen, Collin Tukuitonga, May van Schalkwyk, Gro Dehli Villanger, Sue Wareham, Philip Weinstein, Bo Wen, Robert White, Kirsty Wild, Kate Wingett, Alistair Woodward, Caradee Y. Wright, Yao Wu, Pei Yu
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Anthropocene • climate change • conflict • Demography • ecohealth • Ecology • Fairness • Future health • Global Health • Inequality • Limits to Growth • Migration • Peace • Planetary health • Population • Public Health • Social Justice • sustainability • systems thinking
• ISBN-10: 1-80062-002-0 / 1800620020
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80062-002-5 / 9781800620025