Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States (eBook)

A Scientific Assessment

US Global Change Research Program (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
999 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-2621-5 (ISBN)

Infos

As global climate change proliferates, so too do the health risks associated with the changing world around us. Called for in the President's Climate Action Plan and put together by experts from eight different Federal agencies, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health: A Scientific Assessment is a comprehensive report on these evolving health risks, including: Temperature-related death and illnessAir quality deteriorationImpacts of extreme events on human healthVector-borne diseasesClimate impacts on water-related IllnessFood safety, nutrition, and distributionMental health and well-being This report summarizes scientific data in a concise and accessible fashion for the general public, providing executive summaries, key takeaways, and full-color diagrams and charts. Learn what health risks face you and your family as a result of global climate change and start preparing now with The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2018
• Zusatzinfo: Color illustrations and photographs throughout
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: atmosphere deterioration • Charts • climate change diagrams • Climate Change Effects • climate change graphs • CO2 emissions • Data • Disease • Doomsday • doomsday preppers • Droughts • earthquakes • emission regulation • EPA • extinction • famine • Federal agencies • food distribution • food shortage • food source changes • global climate change • global warming • Graphs • greenhouse gasses • habitat loss • Health Problems • Hurricanes • insect-spread illness • Mass extinction • Mental Health • mental well-being • natural disaster • natural disasters • Obama • Obama climate change • Obama climate change plan • plan for climate change • plan for global warming • preare for global warming • prepare for climate change • Prepper • President's PLan for Climate Change • save Earth • Save our Planet • scientific findings • sickness • temperature change • Tornados • Trump • Typhoons • vector-born diseases • vector-borne diseases • water contamination • widespread sickness • Zika
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-2621-7 / 1510726217
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-2621-5 / 9781510726215