Format:
1 Online-Ressource (238 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781315428000
Series Statement:
Advances in critical medical anthropology 1
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Conents -- Introduction -- 1. Global Warming: A Grave Contradiction of the Capitalist World System -- 2. Lifeways in Peril: The Impact of Global Warming on Settlement Patterns and Human Perceptions of Climate -- 3. An Age of Weather Extremes: Consequences for Human Subsistence, Water, and Nutrition -- 4. A Disturbed Planet: Heat Stress, Pollutants, and Environmental Diseases -- 5. Agents of Suffering: The Spread of Waterborne and Vector-Borne Infections -- 6. Ecosyndemics: The Interaction of Changing Environment and Disease
Content:
7. Adaptation Versus Mitigation: Why Existing Climate Regimes and "Green Capitalism" Are Not Enough to Contain Global Warming -- 8. Toward a Healthier Planet: The Creation of a Democratic Ecosocialist World System -- References -- Index -- About the Authors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781598743531
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781598743548
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Baer, Hans A., 1944 - Global warming and the political ecology of health Walnut Creek, Calif : Left Coast Press, 2009 ISBN 1598743546
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1598743538
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781598743548
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781598743531
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
General works
Keywords:
Anthropogene Klimaänderung
;
Gesundheitsgefährdung
;
Ökosozialismus
;
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