Climate change and human health - risks and responses.

Over the ages, human societies have altered local ecosystems and modified regional climates. Today the human influence has attained a global scale. This reflects the recent rapid increase in population size, energy consumption, intensity of land use, international trade and travel, and other human activities. These global changes have heightened awareness that the long-term good health of populations depends on the continued stability of biosphere's ecological, physical and socioeconomic systems.

The world's climate system is an integral part of the complex of life-supporting processes. Like other large systems, the global climate system is coming under pressure from human activities.

This book seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond with particular focus on the health sector.

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by A.J. McMichael, D.H. Campbell-Lendrum, C.F. Corvalán, K.L. Ebi,
A. Githeko, J.D. Scheraga and A. Woodward
2003, 322 pages [E]
ISBN 92 4 156248 X
Swiss francs 20.—/US $ 18.00
In developing countries: Sw. fr. 14. —
Order no. 1150551
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