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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131524703321

Autore

D. Butler Colin

Titolo

Health of people, places and planet : reflections based on Tony McMichael's four decades of contribution to epidemiological understanding / / edited by Colin D. Butler, Jane Dixon and Anthony G. Capon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ANU Press, 2015

Acton, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-925022-41-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (690 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

614.4

Soggetti

Epidemiology

Epidemiology - History

Public health

Public health surveillance

Social change - Health aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Pages:1 to 34; Pages:35 to 68; Pages:69 to 102; Pages:103 to 136; Pages:137 to 170; Pages:171 to 204; Pages:205 to 238; Pages:239 to 272; Pages:273 to 306; Pages:307 to 340; Pages:341 to 374; Pages:375 to 408; Pages:409 to 442; Pages:443 to 476; Pages:477 to 510; Pages:511 to 544; Pages:545 to 578; Pages:579 to 612; Pages:613 to 646; Pages:647 to 680; Pages:681 to 690

Sommario/riassunto

This book has three main goals. The first is to celebrate the work of a great public health figure, the late A.J. (Tony) McMichael (1942–2014). The second is to position contemporary public health issues in an interdisciplinary context and in ways that highlight the interdependency between the environment, human institutions and behaviours; a broad approach championed by Tony. The third is to encourage emerging and future public health leaders to advocate for policies and cultural change to sustain and improve human health, from a foundation of objective



scholarship. The book’s foreword and 38 chapters were written by people who were inspired by Tony; many of whom worked with him at some point in the last 40 years. Its structure reflects five major public health domains, each of which Tony made major contributions to in an extremely productive academic life: occupational health and safety; environmental and social epidemiology; nutrition and food systems; climate change and health; and ecosystem change and infectious disease. The final section, ‘Transformation’, is dedicated to Tony’s desire for public health scientists to propose adaptive and mitigating solutions to the problems they were observing. Each section contains at least one key publication involving Tony. There is also a selection of artworks from an exhibition which formed part of the conference held to honour Tony at The Australian National University in 2012. This conference formed the first part of Tony’s festschrift, completed by this book.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910566457703321

Autore

Kurowska Krystyna

Titolo

Rural Space Modeling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Soggetti

Research & information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Rural areas have a very important role in society and the economy. They provide residence and employment and also serve as recreational sites, enabling visitors to enjoy unspoiled nature. Rural areas not only supply raw materials and products, but they also provide space for other functions. Spatial planning has a very important role in the process of rural space modeling. It is also important to study local and external conditions. A rural development framework can be proposed



based on an evaluation of the observed phenomena. The following list provides some examples of topics of interest to ensure the consistency of the papers in this Special Issue: - Spatial planning;- Spatial order;- Institutional efficiency;- Spatial, financial, and environmental effects of planning studies;- The urbanization of rural areas;- Town-village relationships;- Social, cultural, economic, environmental, and spatial aspects of rural development. Dynamically growing new technologies (e.g., multi-criteria methods and GIS tools) are gaining popularity worldwide as tools for use in spatial analysis. This Special Issue focuses on the practice and theory of the application of modern technologies in rural space modeling and rural area development planning.The monograph includes papers on contemporary research directions on rural space modeling in areas such as spatial planning, spatial order, spatial-temporal analysis, land use change, environmental aspects, etc. The integration of different data, GIS tools and modeling can provide valuable support for rural space modeling and decision making.