Explores the human impacts on environment that lead to serious
ecological crises, an innovative resource for students,
professionals, and researchers alike Ecosystem Crises Interaction:
Human Health and the Changing Environment provides a timely and
innovative framework for understanding how negative human activity
impacts the environment, and how seemingly disparate factors
connect to, and magnify, hazardous consequences under a changing
climate. Presenting a coherent, holistic perspective to the
subject, this compelling textbook and reference examines the
diverse, often unexpected links that connect our complex world in
context of global climate change. The text illustrates how
eco-crisis interaction--the synergistic interface of two or more
environmental events or pollutants--can multiply to produce harmful
health effects that are greater than their additive impact. This
concept is highlighted through numerous real and relatable
examples, from the use of sediment rock in hydraulic and drinking
water filtration systems, to the connections between human
development and crises such as deforestation, emergent infectious
diseases, and global food insecurity. Throughout the text, specific
examples present opportunities to consider broader questions about
the extinction of species, populations, and ways of life.
Presenting a balanced investigation of the interaction of
contemporary ecological dangers, human behavior, and health, this
unique resource: Explores how complex interactions between global
warming and anthropogenic impairments magnify the diverse
ecological perils and threats facing humans and other species
Discusses roadblocks to addressing environmental risk, such as
global elite polluters, the organized denial of climate change, and
deliberate environmental disruption for financial gain Describes
how the production and use of fossil fuels are driving a
significant rise in carbon dioxide and other pollutants in the
atmosphere and in the oceans Illustrates how industrial production
is contributing to an array of environmental crises, including fuel
spills, waste leakages, and loss of biodiversity Examines the
critical ecosystems that are at risk from interacting stressors of
human origin Ecosystem Crises Interaction: Human Health and the
Changing Environment is an ideal textbook for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students in courses including public and
allied health, environmental studies, medical ecology, medical
anthropology, and geo-health, and a valuable reference for
researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in fields such as
environmental health, global and planetary health, public health,
climate change, and medical social science.
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