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Titolo: | Ecosystem change and public health : a global perspective / / edited by Joan L. Aron and Jonathan A. Patz |
Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (504 p.) |
Disciplina: | 614.4 |
Soggetto topico: | Environmental health |
Public health | |
Altri autori: | AronJoan L (Joan Leslie) PatzJonathan |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: How to Use This Book""; ""PART I APPROACHES""; ""CHAPTER 1 Information on Issues of Global Change""; ""CHAPTER 2 Epidemiological Study Designs""; ""CHAPTER 3 Geographic Information Systems""; ""CHAPTER 4 The Science/Policy Interface""; ""CHAPTER 5 Integrated Assessment""; ""PART II ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES""; ""CHAPTER 6 Human Populations in the Shared Environment""; ""CHAPTER 7 The Changing Chemistry of Earth�s Atmosphere""; ""CHAPTER 8 An Earth Science Perspective on Global Change"" |
""CHAPTER 9 Water Resources Management""""CHAPTER 10 Ecology and Infectious Disease""; ""PART III CASE STUDIES""; ""CHAPTER 11 Cholera and Global Ecosystems""; ""CHAPTER 12 Malaria and Global Ecosystem Change""; ""CHAPTER 13 Global Climate Change and Air Pollution""; ""CHAPTER 14 Too Little, Too Much""; ""APPENDIX A Stimulating Inquiry""; ""APPENDIX B The Resource Center""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Glossary""; ""Index"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | The book includes a resource center describing places to start searches on the World Wide Web, guidelines for finding and evaluating information, suggested study projects, and strategies for encouraging communication among course participants. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Ecosystem change and public health |
ISBN: | 0-8018-7458-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910827243103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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