Andy Haines (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Frumkin, Howard, MD, MPH, PhD (University of Washington)

Broschiertes Buch

Planetary Health

Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 169mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 882g
• ISBN-13: 9781108729260
• ISBN-10: 1108729266
• Artikelnr.: 61212432