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Climate Chaos Your Health at Risk

What You Can Do to Protect Yourself and Your Family

Cindy L. Parker, Steven M. Shapiro

A Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Guide

Book Code: C9858

ISBN: 0-275-99858-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99858-5

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232 pages, figures; maps; tables

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 8/30/2008

List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Public Health

Endorsement From Mike Tidwell,
Author, The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities.: Finally, a book that spells out in compelling detail what true health--personal and planetary--means in a 21st century dominated by global warming. If you read only one book about the climate crisis this year, this is the book.
Endorsement From Bill McKibben,
Founder of 350.org Author The End of Nature: Powerful, well-documented, and necessary. Global warming will do more to affect public health than any other force this century, and if you read this book you will understand both why, and how to help.
Endorsement From Jim Hansen,
Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies: Healthy planet, healthy people. Desire for good health is one more reason to kick our fossil fuel addiction and stop global warming.

Description: Why should we care about climate chaos and global warming? Because, among other risky outcomes, they may seriously harm our health! Scientists around the world are in agreement that global warming, more aptly named climate change, is occurring and human activity is the primary cause. The debate now is in the scientific and policy worlds about just how harmful climate change will be and what are the best ways to stop it. One of those scientists is author Cindy Parker, who believes climate change is the most health-damaging problem humanity has ever faced. Parker has thus immersed herself during the past ten years in educating the public and health professionals about how climate change will affect our well-being. Here, she and husband, Steve Shapiro, a psychologist and former journalist, describe what we can expect if climate change continues unabated. The authors explain our possible physical and mental responses to such climate change factors as heat stress, poor air quality, insufficient water resources, and the rise of infectious diseases fueled by even minor increases in temperature. They also show how other changes that may result from climate change-including sea level rise, extreme weather events, and altered food supplies can harm human health. Parker and Shapiro have found, however, that just talking about the problem is not enough. Actions that can prevent or reduce climate change's harm are presented in each chapter. To illustrate how much global warming will affect our lives, Parker and Shapiro begin their book with a chapter showing the worst-case scenario if climate change continues without intervention, and end the book with the best case scenario if we act now. Their eye-opening work will appeal to everyone who wants to remain healthy as we challenge this world-altering problem of our own making . While written for a lay audience in a manner that limits technical terminology, the book will also appeal to students and professionals of public health, medicine, environmental psychology, and science who will find the focus on health and the extensive referencing useful.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: A Climate Change Tale
Chapter 2: Climate Chaos: What May Come
Chapter 3: Home is Getting Hotter
Chapter 4: Air: Breathing Harder
Chapter 5: Water: Water, Water Everywhere or Neverthere
Chapter 6: Cataclysmic Events: Pounding People and the Planet
Chapter 7: Infectious Disease: Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites, Oh My
Chapter 8: Food: Natures Bounty Bashed
Chapter 9: Ecosystem Health: Cycles of Life or Death
Chapter 10: Human Behavior: Choice to Change
Chapter 11: Epilogue
References Cited

LC Card Number: 2008016469

LCC Class: RA793

Dewey Class: 616

PDF Catalogs:
Praeger Health and Wellness Spring 2008.pdf	Praeger Public Library Spring 2008.pdf


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