Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Global environmental changes: anticipating and assessing risks to health
- 2 Historical connections between climate, medical thought and human health
- 3 The contribution of global environmental factors to ill-health
- 4 Surprise, nonlinearity and complex behaviour
- 5 Epidemiological and impacts assessment methods
- 6 Retrospective studies: analogue approaches to describing climate variability and health
- 7 Detecting the infectious disease consequences of climate change and extreme weather events
- 8 Integrated Assessment modelling of human health impacts
- 9 Remote sensing, GIS and spatial statistics: powerful tools for landscape epidemiology
- 10 Monitoring the health impacts of global climate change
- 11 Epidemiology, environmental health and global change
- 12 Dealing with scientific uncertainties
- Index
- Plate section
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Global environmental changes: anticipating and assessing risks to health
- 2 Historical connections between climate, medical thought and human health
- 3 The contribution of global environmental factors to ill-health
- 4 Surprise, nonlinearity and complex behaviour
- 5 Epidemiological and impacts assessment methods
- 6 Retrospective studies: analogue approaches to describing climate variability and health
- 7 Detecting the infectious disease consequences of climate change and extreme weather events
- 8 Integrated Assessment modelling of human health impacts
- 9 Remote sensing, GIS and spatial statistics: powerful tools for landscape epidemiology
- 10 Monitoring the health impacts of global climate change
- 11 Epidemiology, environmental health and global change
- 12 Dealing with scientific uncertainties
- Index
- Plate section
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- Environmental Change, Climate and HealthIssues and Research Methods, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002