Overview
- Analyzes the effects of climate change on health
- Presents a combination of case studies and examples from projects on the ground
- Demonstrates concrete activities and strategies for mitigate, adapt and prevent the impacts of climate change on health
Part of the book series: Climate Change Management (CCM)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Human Health and Climate Change
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Climate Change and Infectious Diseases
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Climate Change and Health: Education, Training and Governance
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fátima Alves, Phd in Sociology of Health, is Professor at Social Sciences an Management Department, Universidade Aberta and senior Researcher at CEMRI, UAb and at CEF, Coimbra University. Coordinates the extension of the Centre for Functional Ecology of Coimbra University.
Ulisses M Azeiteiro is a Professor at the Universidade Aberta and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Functional Ecology of Coimbra University where he is the Coordinator of the Group History of Science, Scientific Communication and Dissemination . In the area of Sustainability he is member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education and he published several books in Sustainability Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change and Health
Book Subtitle: Improving Resilience and Reducing Risks
Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Fátima Alves
Series Title: Climate Change Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24660-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24658-1Published: 06 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79654-3Published: 19 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24660-4Published: 24 March 2016
Series ISSN: 1610-2002
Series E-ISSN: 1610-2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 532
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 100 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Economics, Climate Change Management and Policy, Public Policy, Health Economics, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Environmental Science and Engineering