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  • Climate, Vulnerability and Health

    Edited by Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg, William A. Sprigg ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This contributed volume explores the intersection between climate change, vulnerable communities, and health. It includes a variety of case studies that highlight how changing physical and social environments impact the health of communities across geographies. The COVID-19 Pandemic and climate change together highlighted how social disparities and environmental inequalities in our society affect ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Extreme Weather, Health, and Communities

    Interdisciplinary Engagement Strategies

    Edited by Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg, William A. Sprigg ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume presents a unique interdisciplinary approach, drawing on expertise in both the natural and social sciences. A primary goal is to present a scientific and socially integrated perspective on place-based community engagement, extreme weather, and health. Each year extreme weather is leading to natural disasters around the world and exerting huge social and health costs. The International ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Disaster Management: Global Challenges and Local Solutions

    by Rajib Shaw ...
    We are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters. Disaster Management is therefore an important topic for all—from high school students to researchers. Disaster data in recent years show increasing trends in physical, social and economic impacts. While a global perspective of disaster management is necessary, it is also important to emphasize local solutions. This book targets some of ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • The Demography of Disasters

    Impacts for Population and Place

    Edited by Dávid Karácsonyi, Andrew Taylor, Deanne Bird ...
    This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for and mitigating impacts from disasters in developed nations.Both slow onset (like the of loss polar ice from climate change) and ... Read more

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  • Natural Disasters and Risk Management in Canada

    An Introduction

    by Nirupama Agrawal ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    These chapters provide valuable and comprehensive information on a variety of hazards, including both scientific and social aspects of disasters. The work introduces the concept of large, medium and small scale hazards, and includes many useful case studies as well as working examples of theoretical concepts.As readers will acknowledge, today the distinction between natural and technological ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia

    Sharing Lessons of Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Resource Management

    Edited by Tetsuji Ito, Makoto Tamura, Akihiko Kotera, Yuki Ishikawa-Ishiwata ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This Open Access book’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and Japan.Asia is one of the regions which is the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. More than sixty percent of the world’s people live in the region, making it the growth center of the world. Asia is ... Read more

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  • Global Climate Change and Human Health

    From Science to Practice

    Edited by George Luber, Jay Lemery ...
    Learn the foundations of climate science and human healthGlobal Climate Change and Human Health examines the environmental crisis from a public health and clinical health perspective, giving students and clinicians the information they need to prepare for the future of health care. Edited by George Luber, associate director for climate change at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and ... Read more

    $71.00 USD

  • Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk

    Who Speaks? Who Suffers?

    by Ben Wisner, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, JC Gaillard, Ilan Kelman, Victor Marchezini ...
    In Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk, the authors explain how people modify the environment and exert power over each other in ways that make nature potentially harmful and put people in harm’s way. Opportunities and challenges faced by those engaging with disaster risk are explored.Across 11 chapters, the authors show that disasters are not natural, are not events, and do not happen ... Read more

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  • Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems For Climate Change

    Edited by Ashbindu Singh, Zinta Zommers ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Around the world, extreme weather events are becoming increasingly "the new normal" and are expected to increase in the 21st century as a result of climate change. Extreme weather events have devastating impacts on human lives and national economies. This book examines ways to protect people from hazards using early warning systems, and includes contributions from experts from four different ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Environmental Hazards and Society

    Edited by Tara K. McGee, Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This Handbook provides a state-of-the-science review of research and practice in the human dimensions of hazards field.The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Hazards and Society reviews and assesses existing knowledge and explores future research priorities in this growing field. It showcases the work of international experts, including established researchers, future stars in the field, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Public Health

    by Barry Levy, Jonathan Patz ...
    Climate change is causing, and will increasingly cause, a wide range of adverse health effects, including heat-related disorders, infectious diseases, respiratory and allergic disorders, malnutrition, mental health problems, and violence. The scientific bases for the associations between climate change and health problems are evolving as are the strategies for adapting to climate change and ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

  • Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility

    Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health

    Edited by Wael Al-Delaimy, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases, food and water insecurity and chronic diseases to malnutrition and mental well-being.The influence of humans on climate change has ... Read more

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