Willem Takken / Pim Martens / Robert J. Bogers (eds.)

Environmental Change and Malaria Risk

Global and Local Implications
Herausgegeben:Takken, Willem; Martens, Pim; Bogers, Robert J.

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Produktbeschreibung

The workshop "Environmental Change and Malaria Risk: Global and Local Implications" was held to conclude a 5-year collaborative research project on environmental change and malaria risk, with field research in Kenya and Brazil. It was fitting that such a large group of specialists was able to attend the workshop and contribute with a chapter in which the predicted environmental changes were viewed from different angles. We would like to thank the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO) and the National Programme for Research on Climate Change and Air Quality (NOP) for having funded our work so generously. Wageningen UR - Frontis is thanked for having arranged the workshop and for its financial contribution. We would especially like to thank Petra van Boetzelaer for having assisted with the logistics of the workshop, and Paulien van Vredendaal for having spent many hours in the type editing of the chapters, making publication of this book possible. The editors, Willem Takken Pim Martens Rob Bogers Wageningen, March 2005 Colour pages Chapter 2. Pim Martens and Chris Thomas; Figures 2 and 3 Figure 2. MARA/ARMA index of climatic suitability for P. falciparum transmission in four consecutive months Figure 3. Number of consecutive months with a MARA/ARMA index of climatic suitability for P. falciparum transmission of p ?0. 9 in each month Colour pages Chapter 5. M. B. Hoshen and A. P.

Produktdetails

• Wageningen UR Frontis Series 9
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4020-3927-0
• 2005
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781402039270
• ISBN-10: 1402039271
• Artikelnr.: 15197854

Autorenporträt

Willem Takken, Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands / Pim Martens, International Centre for Integrative Studies, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands / Robert J. Bogers, Frontis-Wageningen International Nucleus for Strategic Expertise, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Inhaltsangabe

Climate change and malaria risk: complexity and scaling.- Global environmental change and health: integrating knowledge from natural, socioeconomic and medical sciences.- Application of geographic information systems to the study of the ecology of mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases.- A model structure for estimating malaria risk.- Rapid assessment of malaria risk using entomological techniques: taking an epidemiological snapshot.- Malaria risk in the highlands of western Kenya: an entomological perspective.- Malaria risk scenarios for Kisumu, Kenya: blending qualitative and quantitative information.- INDEPTH Network: a viable platform for the assessment of malaria risk in developing countries.- Challenges for dengue control in Brazil: overview of socioeconomic and environmental factors associated with virus circulation.- Effects of environmental change on malaria in the Amazon region of Brazil.- Bluetongue in the Mediterranean: prediction of risk in space and time.- Discussion and epilogue.