Climate Change and Health

Improving Resilience and Reducing Risks

Walter Leal Filho, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Fátima Alves (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XX, 532 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-24658-1 (ISBN)

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A major objective of this volume is to create and share knowledge about the socio-economic, political and cultural dimensions of climate change. The authors analyze the effects of climate change on the social and environmental determinants of the health and well-being of communities (i.e. poverty, clean air, safe drinking water, food supplies) and on extreme events such as floods and hurricanes. The book covers topics such as the social and political dimensions of the ebola response, inequalities in urban migrant communities, as well as water-related health effects of climate change. The contributors recommend political and social-cultural strategies for mitigate, adapt and prevent the impacts of climate change to human and environmental health. The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners interested in new methods and tools to reduce risks and to increase health resilience to climate change.

Walter Leal Filho is a professor at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where he leads a set of international projects on matters related to sustainable development and climate change. Fátima Alves, Phd in Sociology of Health, is Professor at Social Sciences an Management Department, Universidade Aberta and senior Researcher at CEMRI, UAb and at CEF, Coimbra University. Coordinates the extension of the Centre for Functional Ecology of Coimbra University. Ulisses M Azeiteiro is a Professor at the Universidade Aberta and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Functional Ecology of Coimbra University where he is the Coordinator of the Group History of Science, Scientific Communication and Dissemination . In the area of Sustainability he is member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education and he published several books in Sustainability Science.

Preface.- Part I: Human Health and Climate Change.- Part II: Climate Change and Infectious Diseases.- Part III: Climate Change and Health: Education, Training and Governance.- Part IV: Climate Change and Health Across Regions.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.12.2015
Reihe/Serie	Climate Change Management
Zusatzinfo	XX, 532 p. 119 illus., 100 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	989 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte	Business and Economics • Clean air • climate change adaptation • Climate Change Management • Climate Change Management and Policy • Climate Change Mitigation • Climate resilience • disaster risk reduction • Ebola • Environmental economics • Environmental Health • Environmental migration • Environmental Science and Engineering • floods • Health Economics • health politics • health promotion and disease prevention • Health resilience • Human health • Hurricanes • pollution • Poverty • Public Policy • Safe drinking water
ISBN-10	3-319-24658-5 / 3319246585
ISBN-13	978-3-319-24658-1 / 9783319246581
Zustand	Neuware