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UNINA9911020451403321 |
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Environmental change and human health / / [editors, John V. Lake, Gregory R. Bock, organizers, and Kate Ackrill] |
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Chichester ; ; New York, : Wiley, 1993 |
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9786612455155 |
9781282455153 |
128245515X |
9780470514436 |
0470514434 |
9780470514443 |
0470514442 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 175 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LakeJ. V |
BockGregory |
AckrillKate |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Symposium on Environmental Change and Human Health, held in collaboration with the European Environmental Research Organisation, at the Nol in't Bosch Hotel, Wageningen, the Netherlands on 1-3 September 1992"--P. v. |
"A Ciba Foundation symposium jointly with the European Environmental Research Organisation." |
"A Wiley-Interscience publication." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTH; Contents; Introduction; CO2 and the greenhouse effect: present assessment and perspectives; Chemical pollution of the environment: past, present and future; River Rhine: from sewer to the spring of life; Assessing the greenhouse effect in agriculture; Food quality and human nutrition; Soil quality in relation to soil pollution; Arthropods as disease vectors in a changing environment; Human tropical diseases in a changing environment; Human respiratory disease: environmental carcinogens and lung cancer risk; Radiation-induced disease |
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Reproductive health, population growth, economic development and environmental changeGeneral discussion; Global epidemiology; Environmental and health problems of developing countries; Evolution and environmental change; Final general discussion; Summing-up; Index of contributors; Subject index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Discusses those aspects of environmental change which might have direct or indirect effects on human health. Includes discussions on water pollution, agricultural pollution, genetic disease and exotic tropical diseases as well as human nutrition and population growth. |
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