Global Change and Human Health
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Population Belongs on the Johannesburg Agenda
Tập 3 - Trang 33-35 - 2002
The forthcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg (August 26-September 4, 2002) has been set by the United Nations to consider strategies toward sustainable development in all its dimensions. Hence, its mandate is broader than that of the Rio 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). Population issues have so far been discussed in a separat......
Tony McMichael: "Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease — Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures"
Tập 2 - Trang 119-119 - 2001
A New Conceptual Base for Food and Agricultural Policy: The Emerging Model of Links between Agriculture, Food, Health, Environment and Society
Tập 1 - Trang 116-130 - 2000
Everywhere in the world, food and agricultural policy is under scrutiny. Questions are being asked about both past and present public policy and strategy. The motives for reassessment are various, including trade wars, health impact, ecological concerns, population, citizens rights. After decades in which policy was centrally concerned with raising productivity and production, using a fairly simpl......
Editors' Foreword; An American Perspective on the September 11 Terrorist Events
Tập 2 - Trang 89-89 - 2001
Eco-epidemiology: On the Need to Measure Health Effects from Global Change
- 2002
To prevent harm to human health from degrading ecosystems, epidemiologists need useful indicators that are sensitive to those shifts in health status that might parallel these declines. Traditional measures of health (e.g., life expectancy, infant mortality) are intuitively linkable to effects from environmental degradation but, in fact, they do not appear to provide early warning indications of n......
Bioterrorism: A ‘New’ Global Environmental Health Threat
Tập 2 - Trang 46-53 - 2001
Biological weapons represent a unique "environmental" hazard. The pathogens involved are natural in the sense that they are risks that naturally occur in our environment. However they are unnatural in the way in which they are inflicted upon society.