Emily Ying Yang Chan

Broschiertes Buch

Climate Change and Urban Health

The Case of Hong Kong as a Subtropical City

Beschreibung

This book provides a theoretical framework and related technical skills for investigating climate change and its public health consequences and responses, with a focus on urban settings, and in particular Hong Kong, a subtropical metropolis in Asia. Specifically, the book examines the impact of climate change on health in terms of mortality, hos

Autor

Emily Ying Yang Chan serves as Professor, Head of Division of Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine and the Assistant Dean of Faculty of Medicine at Chinese University of Hong Kong. She concurrently holds academic appointments as the Visiting Professor (Public Health Medicine) of Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK, and is the Co-Chair of WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Network. She is author/editor of numerous titles and articles, including Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters (Routledge, 2017).

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Environment and Health
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 235mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780367729363
• ISBN-10: 0367729369
• Artikelnr.: 69703157