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Ecosystem change and public health : a global perspective

Title
Ecosystem change and public health : a global perspective / edited by Joan L. Aron and Jonathan A. Patz.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Aron, Joan L. (Joan Leslie)
  • Patz, Jonathan
Description
xxiii, 480 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.
Subject
  • Environmental health
  • Environmental Health
  • Ecosystem
  • Public Health
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Foreword / Carlos Morel -- 1. Information on Issues of Global Change / Erika G. Feulner -- 2. Epidemiological Study Designs / Alfred A. Buck and Joan L. Aron -- 3. Geographic Information Systems / Joan L. Aron and Gregory E. Glass -- 4. The Science/Policy Interface / Jonathan M. Samet -- 5. Integrated Assessment / Joan L. Aron, J. Hugh Ellis and Benjamin F. Hobbs -- 6. Human Populations in the Shared Environment / Dennis C. Pirages, Paul J. Runci and Robert H. Sprinkle -- 7. The Changing Chemistry of Earth's Atmosphere / Steven A. Lloyd -- 8. An Earth Science Perspective on Global Change / George W. Fisher -- 9. Water Resources Management / Nicolaas J. P. M. de Groot -- 10. Ecology and Infectious Disease / Mark L. Wilson -- 11. Cholera and Global Ecosystems / Anwar Huq, R. Bradley Sack and Rita R. Colwell -- 12. Malaria and Global Ecosystem Change / Joan L. Aron, Clive J. Shiff and Alfred A. Buck --
  • 13. Global Climate Change and Air Pollution: Interactions and Their Effects on Human Health / Jonathan A. Patz and John M. Balbus -- 14. Too Little, Too Much: How the Quantity of Water Affects Human Health / Les Roberts, Ulisses E. C. Confalonieri and Joan L. Aron -- A. Stimulating Inquiry: Textbooks and Information Literacy in the Internet Environment / Erika G. Feulner -- B. The Resource Center / Erika G. Feulner -- Glossary / Joan L. Aron and Mark L. Wilson.
ISBN
  • 0801865816 (acid-free paper)
  • 0801865824 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
00010214
OCLC
  • ocm44578718
  • SCSB-4794605
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries