Climate Change and Human Health: Risks and ResponsesAnthony J. McMichael World Health Organization, 2003 - 322 pages Over the ages, human societies have altered local ecosystems and modified regional climates. Today, the human influence has attained a global scale. This reflects the recent rapid increase in population size, energy consumption, intensity of land use, international trade and travel, and other human activities. These global changes have heightened awareness that the long-term good health of populations depends on the continued stability and functioning of the biosphere's ecological, physical, and socioeconomic systems. The world's climate system is an integral part of the complex of life-supporting processes. Climate and weather have always had a powerful impact on human health and well-being. But like other large natural systems, the global climate system is coming under pressure from human activities. Global climate change is, therefore, a newer challenge to ongoing efforts to protect human health. This volume seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond, with particular focus on the health sector. |
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... ENSO reaches the disease . Bangladesh typically experiences enhanced summer monsoon precipitation following warm winter ENSO events in both models and observations , providing a plausible physical mechanism for this link . However ...
... ENSO reaches the disease . Bangladesh typically experiences enhanced summer monsoon precipitation following warm winter ENSO events in both models and observations , providing a plausible physical mechanism for this link . However ...
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... ENSO decadal modulation are examined using three runs of a coupled ocean - atmosphere general circulation model ... ENSO and is neither a residual of the decadal ENSO modulation nor does it produce any low frequency modulation of ENSO ...
... ENSO decadal modulation are examined using three runs of a coupled ocean - atmosphere general circulation model ... ENSO and is neither a residual of the decadal ENSO modulation nor does it produce any low frequency modulation of ENSO ...
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... ENSO decadal variabilitiy is forced from the midlatitudes . Another possibility is that the tropics act as the source of these decadal variations in ENSO . Knutson and Manabe ( 1998 ) explored a possible mechansim for the observed ...
... ENSO decadal variabilitiy is forced from the midlatitudes . Another possibility is that the tropics act as the source of these decadal variations in ENSO . Knutson and Manabe ( 1998 ) explored a possible mechansim for the observed ...
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... ENSO of 1972-73 contributed to the collapse of the Peruvian anchoveta fishing industry , which by tonnage had made Peru the number one fishing nation in the world . The ENSO of 1982-83 , believed the most severe of this century , caused ...
... ENSO of 1972-73 contributed to the collapse of the Peruvian anchoveta fishing industry , which by tonnage had made Peru the number one fishing nation in the world . The ENSO of 1982-83 , believed the most severe of this century , caused ...
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... ENSO relationship . For example , Lau and Nath ( 2000 ) indicated that the Indian Ocean SST anomalies can provide a negative feedback on the Indian monsoon after they are induced by ENSO - induced monsoon wind changes . Wang et al ...
... ENSO relationship . For example , Lau and Nath ( 2000 ) indicated that the Indian Ocean SST anomalies can provide a negative feedback on the Indian monsoon after they are induced by ENSO - induced monsoon wind changes . Wang et al ...
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