Flood Hazards and Health

Responding to Present and Future Risks
Herausgeber: Few, Roger; Matthies, Franziska

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781844072156
• ISBN-10: 1844072150
• Artikelnr.: 23190586

Autorenporträt

Roger Few is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK, an Affiliated Researcher of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and an ESRC Research Fellow on climatic hazards, health risk and response in developing countries. Franziska Matthies is a Visiting Fellow at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, an Assistant Professor at the Department for International Health at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Research Analyst for the German Advisory Council on Global Change to the Federal Government.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Flood Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk Reduction
The Health Impacts of Floods
Responses to the Health Risks from Flooding
The Mental Health Aspects of Floods: Evidence from England and Wales
The Mozambique Floods of 2000: Health Impact and Response
Coping with Floods in the Mekong Delta, Viet Nam
Flooding in the US: Responses from Government and the Medical and Public Health Sectors
Flood Hazards and Health: Implications for Action and Research