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Planetary Health - Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves (Paperback)
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Planetary Health - Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves (Paperback)
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Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth's natural
systems, the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate, are our
life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss,
scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are
degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health
aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to
protect ourselves and the rest of the biosphere. Planetary Health:
Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves provides a readable
introduction to this new paradigm. With an interdisciplinary
approach, the book addresses a wide range of health impacts felt in
the Anthropocene, including food and nutrition, infectious disease,
non-communicable disease, dislocation and conflict, and mental
health. It also presents strategies to combat environmental changes
and its ill-effects, such as controlling toxic exposures, investing
in clean energy, improving urban design, and more. Chapters are
authored by widely recognised experts. The result is a
comprehensive and optimistic overview of a growing field that is
being adopted by researchers and universities around the world.
Students of public health will gain a solid grounding in the new
challenges their profession must confront, while those in the
environmental sciences, agriculture, the design professions, and
other fields will become familiar with the human consequences of
planetary changes. Understanding how our changing environment
affects our health is increasingly critical to a variety of
disciplines and professions. Planetary Health is the definitive
guide to this vital field.
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