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Climate Change and Global Health

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects

by Dr Kerryn Higgs, Ågot Aakra, Khaled Abass, Robyn Alders, Kofi Amegah, Janetrix Hellen Amuguni, Gulrez Shah Azhar, Katherine Barraclough, Barbara Berner0, Alex Blum1, Justin Borevitz2, Menno Bouma3, Devin C. Bowles4, Mark Braidwood5, Anne Lise Brantsæter6, Cyril Caminade7, Katrina Charles8, Fiona Charlson9, Moumita Sett Chatterjee0, Matthew Chersich1, Rebecca Colvin2, Namukolo Covic3, Christopher B Daniels4, Richard Dennis5, Cybele Dey6, Hubert Dirven7, Yuming Guo8, Tari Haahtela9, Ivan C Hanigan0, Andrew Harmer1, Budi Haryanto2, Susanne Hyllestad3, Christine Instanes4, Ruth Irwin5, Ollie Jay6, Solveig Jore7, Ke Ju8, Tord Kjellstrom9, Marit Låg0, Jason KW Lee1, Shanshan Li2, Irakli Loladze3, Rosemary A. McFarlane4, Martin McKee5, Helle Margrete Meltzer6, Glen Mola7, Andy Morse8, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem9, Dr Nicholas H. Ogden0, Johan Øvrevik1, Rebecca Patrick2, Rezanur Rahaman3, Delia Randolph4, Shilpa Rao5, Arja Rautio6, Mary Robinson7, Tilman Ruff8, Subhashis Sahu9, Jonathan Samet0, Photini Sinnis1, Julie P Smith2, Jessica Stanhope3, Will Steffen4, Peter Stoett5, Stewart Sutherland6, Cathrine Thomsen7, Collin Tukuitonga8, May van Schalkwyk9, Gro Dehli Villanger0, Sue Wareham1, Philip Weinstein2, Bo Wen3, Robert White4, Kirsty Wild5, Kate Wingett6, Alistair Woodward7, Caradee Y. Wright8, Yao Wu9, Pei Yu0 ...

There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, ... Read more

$161.99 USD

There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international,
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Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change

by Will Steffen (Lead Author) ...

Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat from a rapidly changing climate. The effects of climate change are already discernible at all levels of biodiversity – genes, species, communities and ecosystems. Many of Australia's most valued and iconic natural areas – the Great Barrier Reef, south-western Australia, the Kakadu wetlands and the Australian Alps – are among the most vulnerable. But ... Read more

$45.99 USD

Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat from a rapidly changing climate. The effects of climate change are already discernible at all levels of biodiversity – genes, species, communities and ecosystems. Many of Australia's most valued and iconic natural areas – the Great Barrier Reef, south-western Australia, the Kakadu wetlands and the Australian Alps – are among the most vulnerable. But
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Challenges of a Changing Earth

Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10–13 July 2001

Edited by Will Steffen, Jill Jäger, David J. Carson, Clare Bradshaw ...

Series series Global Change - The IGBP Series
This volume is based on plenary presentations from Challenges of a Changing Earth, a Global Change Open Science Conference held in Amsterdam, The Neth- lands, in July 2001. The meeting brought together about 1400 scientists from 105 co- tries around the world to describe, discuss and debate the latest scientific - derstanding of natural and human-driven changes to our planet. It examined the ... Read more

$188.99 USD

This volume is based on plenary presentations from Challenges of a Changing Earth, a Global Change Open Science Conference held in Amsterdam, The Neth- lands, in July 2001. The meeting brought together about 1400 scientists from 105 co- tries around the world to describe, discuss and debate the latest scientific - derstanding of natural and human-driven changes to our planet. It examined the
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Global-Regional Linkages in the Earth System

Edited by Peter D. Tyson, Roland Fuchs, Congbin Fu, Louis Lebel, Hermine Vloemans, Eric Odada, John Perry, Will Steffen, Hassan Virji ...

Series series Global Change - The IGBP Series
Global environmental change occupies a central niche in the pantheon of modern sciences. There is an urgent need to know and understand the way in which global biogeochemical cycles have changed over different time scales in the past and are likely to do so in the future. Equally important, it is necessary to determine the extent to which natural variability and that induce by anthropogenic ... Read more

$89.99 USD

Global environmental change occupies a central niche in the pantheon of modern sciences. There is an urgent need to know and understand the way in which global biogeochemical cycles have changed over different time scales in the past and are likely to do so in the future. Equally important, it is necessary to determine the extent to which natural variability and that induce by anthropogenic
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Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions

Edited by Katherine Richardson, Will Steffen, Diana Liverman ...

Providing an up-to-date synthesis of all knowledge relevant to the climate change issue, this book ranges from the basic science documenting the need for policy action to the technologies, economic instruments and political strategies that can be employed in response to climate change. Ethical and cultural issues constraining the societal response to climate change are also discussed. This book ... Read more

$78.79 USD

Providing an up-to-date synthesis of all knowledge relevant to the climate change issue, this book ranges from the basic science documenting the need for policy action to the technologies, economic instruments and political strategies that can be employed in response to climate change. Ethical and cultural issues constraining the societal response to climate change are also discussed. This book
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Climate Change in Practice

Topics for Discussion with Group Exercises

by Robert L. Wilby ...

Derived from an undergraduate course taught by the author, this accessible book seeks to challenge and provoke readers by posing a series of topical questions concerning climate change and society. Topic summaries provide answers to technical, socio-economic and moral questions surrounding the deployment of climate science. These include how to build and test a climate model, whom and what is most ... Read more

$47.59 USD

Derived from an undergraduate course taught by the author, this accessible book seeks to challenge and provoke readers by posing a series of topical questions concerning climate change and society. Topic summaries provide answers to technical, socio-economic and moral questions surrounding the deployment of climate science. These include how to build and test a climate model, whom and what is most
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Basic Earthquake Engineering

From Seismology to Analysis and Design

by Halûk Sucuoğlu, Sinan Akkar ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book provides senior undergraduate students, master students and structural engineers who do not have a background in the field with core knowledge of structural earthquake engineering that will be invaluable in their professional lives. The basics of seismotectonics, including the causes, magnitude, and intensity of earthquakes, are first explained. Then the book introduces basic elements of ... Read more

$80.09 USD

This book provides senior undergraduate students, master students and structural engineers who do not have a background in the field with core knowledge of structural earthquake engineering that will be invaluable in their professional lives. The basics of seismotectonics, including the causes, magnitude, and intensity of earthquakes, are first explained. Then the book introduces basic elements of
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Grand Transitions

How the Modern World Was Made

by Vaclav Smil ...

From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and the environmental reckoning that will mark its success or failure. What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which ... Read more

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From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and the environmental reckoning that will mark its success or failure. What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which
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Cool It

by Bjorn Lomborg ...

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches ... Read more

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Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches
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The Skeptical Environmentalist

Measuring the Real State of the World

by Bjørn Lomborg ...

The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research ... Read more

$45.99 USD

The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research
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Biodiversity Change and Human Health

From Ecosystem Services to Spread of Disease

by Scope ...

Series series SCOPE Series
Biodiversity Change and Human Health brings together leading experts from the natural science and social science realms as well as the medical community to explore the explicit linkages between human-driven alterations of biodiversity and documented impacts of those changes on human health. The book utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to explore and address the complex interplay between natural ... Read more

$44.69 USD

Biodiversity Change and Human Health brings together leading experts from the natural science and social science realms as well as the medical community to explore the explicit linkages between human-driven alterations of biodiversity and documented impacts of those changes on human health. The book utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to explore and address the complex interplay between natural
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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

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
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