Climate Change and Health Hazards

Addressing Hazards to Human and Environmental Health from a Changing Climate

AvWalter Leal Filho,Diogo Guedes Vidal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien Climate Change Management

1 651 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-04-07
Mått:155 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt:875 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Climate Change Management
Antal sidor:455
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031265914

Utforska kategorier

Innehållsförteckning

Preface.- Part1. THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.- 1. Thinking beyond borders: how can humanities and social sciences help to deal with climate change health hazards in the XXI century? Outputs of the transdisciplinary network “Composing worlds: humanities, well-being and health”.- 2. Climate Change and Health: Essay on the Limits of Naturalism.- 3. Mental health, well-being and climate change: scope and challenge.- 4. Climate change impact on mental health: Is nature fighting us back?.- Part 2. CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.- 5. Industrial waste management in Ghana: environmental challenges and climate change impacts on human health.- 6. Climate change and transmissible diseases.- 7. What will be the most critical driver of population dynamics: climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, or both?.- 8. The impacts of climate change on human wellbeing in the municipality of Porto – an analysis based on remote sensing.- 9. The impact of climate change on water resources and human health – examples from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.- 10. Unawareness about vector-borne diseases among citizens as a health risk consequence of climate change – a case study on leishmaniosis in Northwest Portugal.- 11. Climate change and the increase in disasters related to hydrometeorological and climatic events in Mexico: main impacts on the population.- 12. Climate change and mental health in Bangladesh: a cultural variability perspective.- 13. Impacts of Climate Change on agriculture and food security in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean.- 14. Gender gaps in food security in Mexico, in the context of a changing environment.- 15. Assessing the climate change-related health hazards in Africa.- Part 3. CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE.- 16. Do the Resilience and Adaptive Capacity to Climate-Related Disasters Help Explain Human Health and Well-being?.- 17. EU funding to promote climate change adaptation and risk prevention and management in Portugal: potential effects on mitigating health hazards.- 18. Increasing Healthcare Facilities Resilience to Hazards Resulting from Climate Change.- 19. Climate change and health Hazards: Mitigation Roles of public sectors (Ministry, Department & Agencies).- 20. Changing fertility, child mortality and contraceptive prevalence rates in Bangladesh: effects of disaster risk reduction and family planning programs.- 21. Climate change and humanitarian responses: a proposal of education for health hazards preparedness.- 22. Effectiveness of public policy in the face of climate change: the case of coffee growing in the state of Chiapas – Mexico.- 23. The Role of Education and Research in Human and Planetary Health