Ecosystem change and public health : a global perspective /
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| Imprint: | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. |
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| Description: | xxiii, 480 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4579103 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: How to Use This Book
- Purpose
- The Target Audience
- Multiple Ways to Use the Chapters
- Electronic References and Information Literacy
- The Format of Suggested Study Projects
- Conclusion
- Part I. Approaches
- 1. Information on Issues of Global Change
- 2. Epidemiological Study Designs
- 3. Geographical Information Sysytems
- 4. The Science/Policy Interface
- 5. Integrated Assessment
- Part II. Environmental Changes
- 6. Human Populations in the Shared Environment
- 7. The Changing Chemistry of Earth's Atmosphere
- 8. An Earth Science Perspective on Global Change
- 9. Water Resources Management
- 10. Ecology and Infectious Disease
- Part III. Case Studies
- 11. Cholera and Global Ecosystems
- 12. Malaria and Global Ecosystem Change
- 13. Global Climate Change and Air Pollution: Interactions and Their Effects on Human Health
- 14. Too Little, Too Much: How the Quantity of Water Affetcs Human Health
- A. Stimulating Inquiry: Textbooks and Information Literacy in the Internet Environment
- B. The Resource Center, compiled
- List of Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Index
