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Climate Change and Global Health: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects

Publication Year:
2024
Edition:
2nd Ed.
Author:
Colin D. Butler and Kerryn Higgs
Publisher:
CAB International
ISBN:
978-1-80-062000-1
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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, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving and championing a third ('tertiary') category of longer term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, conflict and collapse. This edition has an expanded foundation, with new chapters discussing nuclear war, population and limits to growth, among others.


This lively yet scholarly resource explores all these issues, finishing with a practical discussion of avenues to reform. As Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, states in the foreword: 'Climate change interacts with many undesirable aspects of human behaviour, including inequality, racism and other manifestations of injustice. Climate change policies, as practised by most countries in the global North, not only interact with these long-standing forms of injustice, but exemplify a new form, of startling magnitude.
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Platform:
OvidSP
Publisher:
CAB International
Product Type:
Book
Author:
Colin D. Butler and Kerryn Higgs
ISBN:
978-1-80-062000-1
Specialty:
  • Earth & Geological Sciences
  • Environmental Sciences
  • One Health
  • Rural Studies
Language:
English
Edition:
2nd Ed.
Pages:
520
Publication Year:
2024

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