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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Main Author: National Research Council of the National Academies (issuing body)
Corporate Authors: 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
Other Authors: Betts, Kellyn, rapporteur (rapporteur), Sawyer, Keegan, rapporteur
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press [2015]
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on > Congresses.
United States.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009621968106719
Table of Contents:
  • 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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