Global Change and Human Health
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Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events; Implications for Food Production, Plant Diseases, and Pests
Tập 2 - Trang 90-104 - 2001
Global and Local (Glocal) Health: The WHO Healthy Cities Programme
Tập 2 - Trang 34-45 - 2001
Urban health is likely to be one of the momentous challenges of the twenty-first
century. Ever increasing numbers of people move to urban environments; the
failure to adequately link urban planning to public health is described in this
paper, and the WHO Healthy Cities Programme initiated in 1986 is presented as a
vehicle to redress that problem. This article describes the foundations, scope
and p...
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment; Brief Report on the First Technical Design Workshop
Tập 2 - Trang 78-79 - 2001
The Skeptical Environmentalist: A Sociocultural Perspective
Tập 3 - Trang 55-57 - 2002
Bjorn Lomborg's critique of environmentalism has been praised by The Economist
as ‘right’ on its main points and ‘just’ in its criticism of much green
activism, and damned by Scientific American as a ‘failure’ in its purpose of
describing the state of the world. Most of the debate has centred on Lomborg's
treatment of environmental issues. But the book is about more than the
environment, and its f...
Injury and Environmental Epidemiology, a converging agenda
Tập 3 - Trang 4-15 - 2002
Reliance on motor vehicle travel and the internal combustion engine has provided
mobility, but the public health costs are substantial: Road deaths, adverse
deleterious health effects from air pollution and noise, reduction in physical
exercise, and toxic hazards associated with the refining, transport, use and
disposal of petrochemicals. For traumatic road injury, kinetic energy is the
pathogen. ...
Climate Change and the Disappearance of Malaria from England
Tập 1 - Trang 184-187 - 2000
As the world's climate continues to change there is concern that this may cause
malaria to spread to new areas. Here we examine whether past changes in
temperature, in addition to social changes, may have affected malaria in
England. Our analysis indicates that cold summers experienced during the 1800s
may have contributed to the disappearance of this disease from the country. As
our summers becom...
Population Health, Environment and Economic Development
Tập 3 - Trang 36-41 - 2002
There are fundamental links between population health, environment and economic
development. The ultimate goal of economic development is to improve the quality
of human life and increase people's longevity. This goal cannot be achieved
without a clean and prosperous Earth. There has been increasing evidence showing
that the expansion of economic activities can have significant impacts on the
envi...