Planetary Health

Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene

Andy Haines, Howard Frumkin (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

454 Seiten

2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-72926-0 (ISBN)

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The climate emergency and other dramatic environmental changes pose growing threats to the health of humanity, and have defined a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. This book explains those threats, and explores many solutions that can promote better health and reduce the environmental impacts of humanity on our planet.

We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health, and explains how these changes affect health outcomes, from pandemics to infectious diseases to mental health, from chronic diseases to injuries. It shows how people can adapt to those changes that are now unavoidable, through actions that both improve health and safeguard the environment. But humanity must do more than just adapt: we need transformative changes across many sectors - energy, housing, transport, food, and health care. The book discusses specific policies, technologies, and interventions to achieve the change required, and explains how these can be implemented. It presents the evidence, builds hope in our common future, and aims to motivate action by everyone, from the general public to policymakers to health practitioners.

Sir Andrew Haines is Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at the Centre for Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he was previously director between 2001 and 2010. He was member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the Second, Third, and Fifth Assessment Reports. He was chair of the Rockefeller/ Lancet Commission on Planetary Health in 2014–15, and chair of the Task Force on Climate Change Mitigation and Public Health in 2008–9. He is an international member of the US National Academy of Medicine. Howard Frumkin is Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle, where he was dean from 2000 through 2006. He was previously head of the Wellcome Trust 'Our Planet, Our Health' initiative, and director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. Our Changing Planet; 2. Climate Change; 3. Pollution, Land Use, Biodiversity, and Health; 4. Assessing Vulnerability and Risk in the Anthropocene Epoch; 5. Adaptation and Resilience to Planetary Change; 6. Addressing Conceptual, Knowledge and Implementation Challenges; 7. Health in the Sustainable Development Goals; 8. Transforming Energy and Industry: Toward a Net-zero Circular Economy for Health; 9. Sustaining Urban Health in the Anthropocene Epoch; 10. Food Systems and Land Use; 11. The Role of Health Professionals in Fostering Planetary Health; 12. Sustaining Planetary Health in the Anthropocene; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2021
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	880 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-108-72926-6 / 1108729266
ISBN-13	978-1-108-72926-0 / 9781108729260
Zustand	Neuware