Climate change and the health of nations : famines, fevers, and the fate of populations /

When we think ""climate change, "" we think of man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to its vicissitudes. Tony McMichael, a renowned epidemiologist and a pio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: McMichael, A. J. (Anthony J.) (Autor), Woodward, Alistair (Autor), Muir, Cameron (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Temas:
Human beings > Effect of climate on.
Climatic changes > Health aspects.
Medicine > History.
Climate Change > history
Environmental Exposure > history
Hominidae
History of Medicine
Êtres humains > Influence du climat.
Médecine > Histoire.
history of medicine.
SCIENCE > Global Warming & Climate Change.
Medicine
Climatic changes > Health aspects
Human beings > Effect of climate on
Klimaänderung
Naturkatastrophe
Gesundheit
Umweltkrankheit
Anpassung
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • A restless climate
  • Climatic choreography of health and disease
  • From Cambrian explosion to first farmers : how climate made us human
  • Spread of farming, new diseases, and rising civilizations : mid-holocene optimum
  • Eurasian bronze age : unsettled climatic times
  • Romans, Mayans, and Anasazi : the classical optimum to droughts in the Americas
  • Little ice age : Europe, China, and beyond
  • Weather extremes in modern times
  • Humans throughout the holocene
  • Facing the future.

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