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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... social disruption and disease outbreaks in response to the more acute , inter - annual , quasi - periodic ENSO ( El Niņo Southern Oscillation ) cycle ( 1 ) . The depletion of soil fertility and freshwater supplies , and the mismanage ...
... social disruption and disease outbreaks in response to the more acute , inter - annual , quasi - periodic ENSO ( El Niņo Southern Oscillation ) cycle ( 1 ) . The depletion of soil fertility and freshwater supplies , and the mismanage ...
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... social and economic development . As a society becomes wealthier , more literate and better able to exert legislative control , the profile of local and community - wide environmental hazards ( categories A and B ) is reduced ...
... social and economic development . As a society becomes wealthier , more literate and better able to exert legislative control , the profile of local and community - wide environmental hazards ( categories A and B ) is reduced ...
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... social and natural environments ( 15 ) . Indeed this recognition will assist in altering social and economic practices and priorities , to avert or minimize the occurrence of global environmental changes and their adverse impacts ...
... social and natural environments ( 15 ) . Indeed this recognition will assist in altering social and economic practices and priorities , to avert or minimize the occurrence of global environmental changes and their adverse impacts ...
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... social collapse and the disappearance of whole populations . One such is the mysterious demise of the Viking settlements in Greenland in the fourteenth and fifteenth cen- turies , as temperatures in and around Europe began to fall ...
... social collapse and the disappearance of whole populations . One such is the mysterious demise of the Viking settlements in Greenland in the fourteenth and fifteenth cen- turies , as temperatures in and around Europe began to fall ...
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... social policy development and advocacy during this first decade of the twenty- first century . Indeed , consideration of global climatic - environmental hazards to human population health will play a central role in the sustainability ...
... social policy development and advocacy during this first decade of the twenty- first century . Indeed , consideration of global climatic - environmental hazards to human population health will play a central role in the sustainability ...
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