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Climate change and human health : risks and responses
Record details
- ISBN: 924156248X
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Physical Description:
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xi, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. - Publisher: Geneva : World Health Organization, 2003.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Ch. 1. Global climate change and health: an old story writ large -- Ch. 2. Weather and climate: changing human exposures -- Ch. 3. International consensus on the science of climate and health: the IPCC third assessment report -- Ch. 4. Looking to the future: challenges for scientists studying climate change and health -- Ch. 5. Impacts on health of climate extremes -- Ch. 6. Climate change and infectious diseases -- Ch. 7. How much disease could climate change cause? -- Ch. 8. Stratospheric ozone depletion, ultraviolet radiation and health -- Ch. 9. National assessments of health impacts of climate change: a review -- Ch. 10. Monitoring the health effects of climate change -- Ch. 11. Adaptation and adaptive capacity in the public health context -- Ch. 12. From science to policy: developing responses to climate change -- Ch. 13. Conclusions and recommendations for action. |
| Issuing Body Note: | "Prepared jointly by the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme."--p. ix. |
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| Subject: | Medical climatology Climatic changes -- Health aspects Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Castlegar Campus Library | WA 30 C55 2003 (Text)
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B001129261 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |
