Andy Haines, Howard Frumkin

Planetary Health

Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 962g
• ISBN-13: 9781108492348
• ISBN-10: 1108492347
• Artikelnr.: 61259392

Autorenporträt

Sir Andrew Haines is Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at the Centre for Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he was previously director between 2001 and 2010. He was member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the Second, Third, and Fifth Assessment Reports. He was chair of the Rockefeller/ Lancet Commission on Planetary Health in 2014-15, and chair of the Task Force on Climate Change Mitigation and Public Health in 2008-9. He is an international member of the US National Academy of Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Our Changing Planet
2. Climate Change
3. Pollution, Land Use, Biodiversity, and Health
4. Assessing Vulnerability and Risk in the Anthropocene Epoch
5. Adaptation and Resilience to Planetary Change
6. Addressing Conceptual, Knowledge and Implementation Challenges
7. Health in the Sustainable Development Goals
8. Transforming Energy and Industry: Toward a Net-zero Circular Economy for Health
9. Sustaining Urban Health in the Anthropocene Epoch
10. Food Systems and Land Use
11. The Role of Health Professionals in Fostering Planetary Health
12. Sustaining Planetary Health in the Anthropocene
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