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Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons Learned and New Directions (Hardcover)
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Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons Learned and New Directions (Hardcover)
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Humans have been adapting to a changing climate throughout history.
Whether by innovation or migration we have developed a considerable
capacity for "acclimatizing" to our environment. Since the mid 19th
century, however, the rate of change has been increasing and the
fact that this anthropogenically forced acceleration cannot be
sufficiently reduced will have a significant impact on public
health in the near and medium future. How severe the impact will be
depends largely on our capacity to adapt and its effective
deployment. By exploring cases histories in public health,
Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change:
Lessons Learned and New Directions identifies the key adjustments
necessary for public health systems to effectively adapt to this
accelerated climate change. Taking into consideration the large
portion of the global population without access to adequate
nutrition, clean drinking water, or a viable public health system,
the book examines the added influence of climate-sensitive
diseases, their mutation, incubation, and migration, on life
expectancy, economic productivity, and quality of life. The new
challenge is to develop and deploy a capacity for more rapid social
and technological adaptation, and to ensure that this capacity is
universally and equitably distributed in the face of global
environmental change. The option of the hunter/gatherer to simply
pick up and move to more attractive climes is no longer available
to today's higher population densities and fixed infrastructures.
Effective adaptation to this rapid climate change must come from a
conscious, planned, anticipatory approach. To do this we must use
what we've learned from the lessons ofour past
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