Modeling the health risks of climate change : workshop summary

Modeling the health risks of climate change workshop summary

Climate change poses risks to human health and well-being through shifting weather patterns, increases in frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and other environmental effects. Those risks occur against a backdrop of changing...

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Autor principal: National Research Council of the National Academies (issuing body)
Autores Corporativos: National Research Council of the National Academies, issuing body (issuing body), Standing Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions (Workshop) (-), Standing Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions, issuing body, Board on Life Sciences. Division on Earth and Life Sciences, issuing body
Otros Autores: Betts, Kellyn, rapporteur (rapporteur), Sawyer, Keegan, rapporteur
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press [2015]
Materias:
Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on > Congresses.
United States.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009621968106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter; ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF REVIEWERS; CONTENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW; 2 HEALTH RISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE:WHAT WE KNOW AND WHY WE MODEL; 3 MODELING HEALTH RISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: STATUS, HURDLES, AND OPPORTUNITIES; 4 APPLYING SYSTEMS THINKING TO UNDERSTAND FUTURE VULNERABILITIES; 5 MOVING FORWARD; APPENDIX A STATEMENT OF TASK; APPENDIX B WORKSHOP AGENDA; APPENDIX C WORKSHOP ATTENDEES

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