Anthony Mcmichael

Climate Change and the Health of Nations

Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations

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Produktbeschreibung

In Climate Change and the Health of Nations, renowned epidemiologist and climate change expert Anthony McMichael presents a sweeping and authoritative analysis of how human societies have been shaped by climate events. He connects cases of natural climate change to plagues throughout history, issuing a warning about how climate has and will continue to determine our futures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9780190931841
• ISBN-10: 0190931841
• Artikelnr.: 53934817

Autorenporträt

Anthony J. McMichael (1942-2014), was Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University. He previously was Professor of Epidemiology at the ANU and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

* Dedication
* Foreword
* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* List of illustrations
* 1. Introduction
* 2. A Restless Climate
* 3. Climatic choreography of health and disease
* 4. From Cambrian Explosion to first farmers: how climate made us
human
* 5. Spread of farming, new diseases, and rising civilisations:
Mid-Holocene Optimum, 6,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE.
* 6. Eurasian Bronze Age: unsettled climatic times
* 7. Romans, Mayans and Anasazi: the Classical Optimum to droughts in
the Americas, 300 BCE to 1250 CE
* 8. Little Ice Age: Europe, China and beyond
* 9. Weather extremes, famine and disease in modern times (1800- 2000
CE)
* 10. The Holocene climate: fickle friend and foe
* 11. Facing the Future