Climate Change and Global Health
Published on 20. June 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-78064-858-3 (ISBN)
Description
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. Now with added 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". Climate change, now clearly worsening, is triggering a powerful social and technological response. Will this response be sufficient to avert its potentially catastrophic "tertiary" health effects?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
772 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78064-858-3 (9781780648583)
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Person
Colin's interest in and experience of health in the global South date to the early 1980s; his interest in climate change and health to 1989, the year he co-founded the NGOs BODHI US and BODHI Australia, each of which is particularly active in South Asia. Colin contributed to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2002-05) as a co-ordinating lead author for the conceptual framework and scenarios working groups, and to the health chapter of the 5th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. In 2014 Colin became the first Australian IPCC author to be arrested protesting climate change policy inertia. His academic qualifications include in medicine and epidemiology. Colin has published almost 300 articles, chapters and miscellanea in scholarly outlets, not only on climate change, but also on population growth, development, poverty and conflict.
Content
a: Contributors b: Acronyms c: Acknowledgements d: Dedication - Colin D. Butler e: Foreword - Sir Andy Haines Part I: Introduction 1: The Anthropocene: A Planet Under Pressure 2: Climate Change and Global Health Part II: Primary Effects 3: Heat-related and Cold-related Mortality and Morbidity 4: Occupational Heat Effects: A Global Health and Economic Threat Due to Climate Change 5: Measuring and Estimating Occupational Heat Exposure and Effects in Relation to Climate Change: 'Hothaps' Tools for Impact Assessments and Prevention Approaches 6: Climate Extremes, Disasters and Health Part III: Secondary Effects 7: Global Warming and Malaria in Tropical Highlands - An Estimation of Ethiopia's 'Unmitigated' Annual Malaria Burden in the 21st Century 8: Dengue: Distribution and Transmission Dynamics with Climate Change 9: Lyme Disease and Climate Change 10: Climate Change and Human Parasitic Disease 11: Impacts of Climate Change on Allergens and Allergic Diseases: Knowledge and Highlights from Two Decades of Research 12: Wildfires, Air Pollution, Climate Change and Health Part IV: Tertiary Effects 13: Famine, Hunger, Society and Climate Change 14: Moving to a Better Life? Climate, Migration and Population Health 15: Unholy Trinity: Climate Change, Conflict and Ill Health Part V: Regional Issues 16: Climate Change and Health in East Asia: A Food in Health Security Perspective 17: Climate Change and Health in South Asian Countries 18: Climate Change and Global Health: A Latin American Perspective 19: S mall Island States - Canaries in the Coal Mine of Climate Change and Health 20: Climate Change Adaptation to Infectious Diseases in Europe 21: Climate Change and Health in the Arctic 22: Climate Change and Health in Africa 23: Zoonotic Diseases and Their Drivers in Africa Part VI: Cross-Cutting Issues 24: Climate Change, Food and Energy: Politics and Co-benefits 25: Death of a Mwana: Biomass Fuels, Poverty, Gender and Climate Change 26: Mental Health, Cognition and the Challenge of Climate Change 27: Climate Change, Housing and Public Health 28: Health in New Socio-economic Pathways for Climate Change Research Part VII: Transformation 29: Health Activism and the Challenge of Climate Change 30: Climate Change and Health: From Adaptation Towards a Solution 32: Index 31: From Paris towards 1.5 degrees C (Paperback Edition Only)