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“divya alexander”

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  • Climate Change and the Health Sector

    Healing the World

    Edited by Alexander Thomas, K. Srinath Reddy, Divya Alexander, Poornima Prabhakaran ...
    The health sector is known to be one of the major contributors towards the greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis, the greatest health threat of the 21st century. This volume positions the health sector as a leader in the fight against climate change and explores the role of the health system in climate policy action. It delivers an overview of the linkages between climate change and ... Read more

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  • The Sanitation Triangle

    Socio-Culture, Health and Materials

    Edited by Taro Yamauchi, Seiji Nakao, Hidenori Harada ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book deals with global sanitation, where SDG 6.2 sets a target of enabling access to sanitation services for all, but has not yet been achieved in low- and middle-income countries. The transition from the United Nations MDGs to the SDGs requires more consideration based on the socio-cultural aspects of global sanitation. In other words, equitable sanitation for those in vulnerable ... Read more

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  • Planetary Health

    Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene

    by Andy Haines, Howard Frumkin ...
    We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health, and explains how these changes affect health outcomes, from pandemics to infectious diseases to mental health, from chronic diseases to injuries. It ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Planetary Health

    Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves

    by Samuel Myers, Howard Frumkin ...
    Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Beef Cattle Production and Trade

    Edited by Lewis Kahn, David Cottle ...
    Beef Cattle Production and Trade covers all aspects of the beef industry from paddock to plate. It is an international text with an emphasis on Australian beef production, written by experts in the field. The book begins with an overview of the historical evolution of world beef consumption and introductory chapters on carcass and meat quality, market preparation and world beef production. North ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Sustainable Healthcare Architecture

    by Robin Guenther, Gail Vittori ...
    Series Book 41 - Wiley Series in Sustainable Design
    "With this book, Robin Guenther and Gail Vittori show us how critical our green building mission is to the future of human health and secures a lasting legacy that will continue to challenge and focus the green building movement, the healthcare industry, and the world for years to come."—From the Foreword by Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building CouncilINDISPENSABLE ... Read more

    $82.00 USD

  • Environmental Health

    From Global to Local

    Edited by Howard Frumkin ...
    Series series Public Health/Environmental Health
    The bestselling environmental health text, with all new coverage of key topicsEnvironmental Health: From Global to Local is a comprehensive introduction to the subject, and a contemporary, authoritative text for students of public health, environmental health, preventive medicine, community health, and environmental studies. Edited by the former director of the CDC's National Center for ... Read more

    $104.00 USD

  • Indian Agriculture Towards 2030

    Pathways for Enhancing Farmers’ Income, Nutritional Security and Sustainable Food and Farm Systems

    Edited by Ramesh Chand, Pramod Joshi, Shyam Khadka ...
    Series series India Studies in Business and Economics
    This open access book brings together varying perspectives for transformational change needed in India’s agriculture and allied sectors. Stressing the need of thinking for a post-Green Revolution future, the book promotes approaching this change through eight broad areas, indicating the policy shifts needed to meet the challenges for the coming decade (2021-2030).The book comprises of ten ... Read more

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  • Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development

    Edited by Franz W. Gatzweiler, Joachim von Braun ...
    The aim of the book is to present contributions in theory, policy and practice to the science and policy of sustainable intensification by means of technological and institutional innovations in agriculture. The research insights re from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The purpose of this book is to be a reference for students, scholars and practitioners inthe field of science and policy for ... Read more

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  • The Health Practitioner's Guide to Climate Change

    Diagnosis and Cure

    Edited by Fiona Adshead, Jenny Griffiths, Mala Rao, Allison Thorpe ...
    Highly commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Awards 2010 There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to make health services sustainable, and to design healthy, sustainable communities. The book: - provides an introduction for health practitioners ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Sustainable Healthcare

    by Knut Schroeder, Trevor Thompson, Kathleen Frith, David Pencheon ...
    Sustainable Healthcare sets out a vision for medical care of high quality, manageable cost and low impact on the planetary systems which sustain us.In tackling the major challenges of our age, such as resource depletion, loss of biodiversity and climate change, health services can play a central role, moving from being part of the problem to becoming part of the solution. Sustainable Healthcare ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • Climate Change and Public Health

    by Barry Levy, Jonathan Patz ...
    Climate change is causing, and will increasingly cause, a wide range of adverse health effects, including heat-related disorders, infectious diseases, respiratory and allergic disorders, malnutrition, mental health problems, and violence. The scientific bases for the associations between climate change and health problems are evolving as are the strategies for adapting to climate change and ... Read more

    $92.69 USD