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Record Nr.

UNINA9910626109903321

Autore

Cole Jennifer

Titolo

Planetary health : human health in an era of global environmental change / / Jennifer Cole ; with contributions from Harriet Bartlett [and seven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : CABI, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-78924-165-0

1-78924-166-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 pages)

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

World health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to planetary health / Jennifer Cole -- Key concepts in planetary health / Jennifer Cole -- The evolutionary biology approach : a natural baseline for human health / Jennifer Cole -- The natural capital approach : opportunities and challenges / Andrew Farlow -- The one earth approach : planetary health in an era of limits / Stephen Quilley and Katharine Zywert -- The transhuman approach : technoscience and nature / Alex Foster -- Trends in human health / Jennifer Cole -- The demographic transition / Jennifer Cole -- The epidemiological transition / Jennifer Cole -- The ecological transition / Jennifer Cole -- Agriculture : land use, food systems and biodiversity / Jennifer Cole -- Urbanization, living standards and sustainability / Jennifer Cole -- Energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and global warming / Jennifer Cole -- Environment protection : a key tool for planetary health / Jennifer Cole -- Conclusions : equity, distribution and planetary health / Jennifer Cole -- Climate change, land use and waterborne infectious disease / Janey Messina -- Sanitation, clean energy, and fertilizer / Jennifer Cole -- Trees, wellbeing, and urban greening / Alice Milner and Tim Harris -- Livestock, antibiotics, and GHG emissions / Harriet Bartlett.