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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

Book Code: C9858

ISBN: 0-275-99858-4

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

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232 pages, figures

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 8/30/2008

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

Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 8/30/2008)

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: As the debate over global warming continues, scientists around the world are studying subtle changes in human health across recent decades that coincide with climate changes. One of those scientists is author Cindy Parker, who has been immersed in a five-year study funded by the U.S. government. Here, she and husband Steve Shapiro, a psychologist and former journalist, describe what science is showing have been the effects of climate change on our health. The authors explain how both physical and mental health respond to factors including heat stress, poor air quality, poor water quality, and the rise of infectious diseases fueled by even minor increases in temperature. They also show how other changes that may result from global warming--sea level increases, extreme weather events, and altered food supplies, for example--can also harm human health. Actions to prevent or reduce harm from all of these changes are presented in each chapter. Why should we care about climate chaos and global warming? Parker and Shapiro begin their book with a chapter showing the worst case scenario if global warming continues, and the best case scenario if we act now. This eye-opening work will appeal to general readers and to students of public health, medicine, environmental psychology, and science.

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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