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  • Pandemic Urbanism

    Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities

    Series series Urban Futures
    Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism critically investigates these relationships in a world faced with its first pandemic on a majority urban planet.The authors reveal the social and historical context of recent infectious disease ... Leer más

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  • Networked Disease

    Emerging Infections in the Global City

    Edición de S. Harris Ali, Roger Keil ...
    Series Libro 44 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies.Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continentsConnects newer thinking on global cities, networks, and governance in a post-national era of public health regulations and neo ... Leer más

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  • Environmental Management

    Critical thinking and emerging practices

    The field of Environmental Management (EM) involves a broad and evolving repertoire of practices. The field originated around 1970 in response to new policy, regulation and public concern about environmental issues. EM has undergone many changes and improvements since then, progressing from a reactive, compliance-based focus toward, in leading cases, practices reflecting strong commitment to ... Leer más

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    Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation

    The author of The Long Emergency explains why technology can't solve all our problems, and how excessive optimism can endanger our future .The Long Emergency quickly became a grassroots hit, offering a shocking vision of our post-oil future and capturing the attention of environmentalists and business leaders alike. As discussion about our dependence on fossil fuels and our dysfunctional financial ... Leer más

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  • The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment

    The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment

    The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to market, creating new hazards even as the expansion and mechanization of industry exacerbated old ones. Dangers still felt today- ... Leer más

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  • Quarterly Essay 9 Beautiful Lies

    Population and Environment in Australia

    de Tim Flannery ...
    Series Libro 9 - Quarterly Essay
    In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold damage to our river system for the sake of white immigration. The lie that rushing to preserve ... Leer más

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  • Statistical Models in Epidemiology

    This self-contained account of the statistical basis of epidemiology has been written specifically for those with a basic training in biology, therefore no previous knowledge is assumed and the mathematics is deliberately kept at a manageable level. The authors show how all statistical analysis of data is based on probability models, and once one understands the model, analysis follows easily. In ... Leer más

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  • AIDS Between Science and Politics

    de Peter Piot ...
    Traducido por Laurence Garey ...
    Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only catastrophic to the health of millions worldwide but also fractured international relations, global access to new technologies, and public ... Leer más

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  • Canada and the Changing Arctic

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    Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new geopolitical dynamics point to a competitive and inherently conflictual “race for resources”? Or will the Arctic become a region ... Leer más

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  • A Life Course Approach to Mental Disorders

    Series series A Life Course Approach to Adult Health
    A Life Course Approach to Mental Disorders examines the interplay of social and biological factors in the production of a wide range of mental disorders throughout life, from the peri-natal period through to old age. The aging into adulthood of numerous birth cohorts, especially over the past twenty years, has provided increasing evidence that mental disorders previously perceived to emerge in ... Leer más

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  • Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology

    Concepts, Methods, Mathematical Models, and Public Health

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    When it comes to news about the Ebola virus, many people have become extremely fearful that the the country is actually dealing with an Ebola epidemic as opposed to several isolated cases of Ebola. In truth, many individuals are fearful that a worldwide Ebola pandemic is just around the corner. As a result, people are turning to virtually any avenue possible to find out more information regarding ... Leer más

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