Changing Planet, Changing Health - How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do About it (Hardcover)

Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice - it is damaging the health of people around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real people with cutting-edge scientific and medical information, "Changing Planet, Changing Health" brings us to places like Mozambique, Honduras, and the United States for an eye-opening on-the-ground investigation of how climate change is altering patterns of disease. Written by a physician and world expert on climate and health and an award-winning science journalist, the book reveals the surprising links between global warming and cholera, malaria, lyme disease, asthma, and other health threats. In clear, accessible language, it also discusses topics including Climategate, cap-and-trade proposals, and the relationship between free markets and the climate crisis. Most importantly, "Changing Planet, Changing Health" delivers a suite of innovative solutions for shaping a healthy global economic order in the twenty-first century.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	April 2011
Authors:	Paul R. Epstein • Dan Ferber
Foreword by:	Jeffrey D. Sachs
Dimensions:	235 x 159 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-26909-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Meteorology > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming
LSN:	0-520-26909-8
Barcode:	9780520269095

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