Environmental change, climate, and health issues and research methods
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, UK
Cambridge University Press
©2002
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Global environmental changes: anticipating and assessing risks to health / A.J. McMichael and P. Martens -- Historical connections between climate, medical thought and human health / A.G. Carmichael and M. Fleming Moran -- The contribution of global environmental factors to ill-health / K.R. Smith and M. Desai -- Surprise, nonlinearity and complex behavior / T. Awerbuch, A.E. Kiszewski and R. Levins -- Epidemilogic and impacts assessment methods / K.L. Ebi and J.A. Patz -- Retrospective studies: analogue approaches describing climate variability and health / R.S. Kovats and M. Bouma -- Detecting the infectious disease consequences of climate change and extreme weather events / P.R. Epstein -- Integrated assessment modelling of human health impacts / P. Martens, J. Rotmans and D. Rothman -- Remote sensing, GIS, and spatial statistics: powerful tools for landscape epidemiology / L.R. Beck, U. Kitron and M.R. Bobo -- Monitoring the health impacts of global climate change / D.H. Campbell-Lendrum, P. Wilkinson, K. Kuhn, R.S. Kovats, A. Haines, B. Menne and T.W. Parr -- Epidemiology, environmental health and global change / A. Woodward -- Dealing with scientific uncertainties / T.O. Riordan and A.J. McMichael The advent of global environmental change, with all its uncertainties and emphasis on long term prediction, brings new challenges and tasks for scientists, the public and policy makers. This book addresses the concepts and methods needed to analyse and understand this complex issue |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 338 pages) |
| ISBN: | 051106697X 0511069103 0521782368 9780511066979 9780511069109 |