Climate chaos : your health at risk : what you can do to protect yourself and your family / Cindy L. Parker and Steven M. Shapiro.
Material type: TextSeries: Public healthPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.Description: xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780275998585 (hbk.)
- 0275998584 (hbk.)
- 616.988 PAR 23 008127
- RA793 .P32 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-213) and index.
Machine derived contents note: Table of Contents
Chapter 1: A Climate Change Tale
Chapter 2: Climate Chaos: What May Come
What This Book is About
What's Happening to Our Climate
Why the Climate is Changing
The Greenhouse Effect
Greenhouse Gases and Temperature
Sea Level Rise
Dangerous Climate Change
The Most Worrisome Greenhouse Gases
The Speed of Climate Change
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across Nations
Peak Petroleum
The Book's Outline
Chapter 3: Home is Getting Hotter
It Could Get Hot
Heat and Our Health
The Most Vulnerable to Heat Stress
Poverty: Another Risk Factor for Heat Stress
Geography Matters
Gender Considerations
Race and Ethnicity
Fewer Deaths from Cold Weather?
Global Warming and Behavior
Solutions
Chapter 4: Air: Breathing Harder
The Climate-Air Pollution Connection
Ozone and Health
The Most Vulnerable to Ozone Effects
Children
Other Vulnerable Populations
Particulate Matter
Forest Fires and Breathing
Dust
Other Air Toxins
Pollen and Climate Change
Who Decides How Clean Our Air Will Be?
Air Quality and Your Mental Health
Chapter 5: Water: Water, Water Everywhere or Neverthere
Risks to Our Water
How We use Water
Where Our Water Comes From
How Much Water We Need
Droughts Affect Health
Droughts and Infectious Disease
Droughts and Fires
Floods Affect Health
Climate Change and Water Availability
Melting Snowpack
Melting Glaciers
Desalination
Bottled Water
Water Conservation-More Than Just Personal Virtue
Water Scarcity, Conservation, and Mental Health
Chapter 6: Cataclysmic Events: Pounding People and the Planet
A Cavalcade of Harm
Floods and Inundations
Floods, Contamination, and Disease
Floods, Mold, and More
Storm Surge
Salt Water Contamination of Wells
Erosion
Other Effects of Cataclysmic Events on Health
Risk to Infrastructure and Health
Displaced People
Conflict
Cataclysmic Events and Mental Health
The Science of Sea Level Rise
Thermal Expansion
Melting Inland Glaciers
Greenland's Melting Ice
Melting Arctic Sea Ice
Melting Antarctica
Melting Ice = Sea Level Rise
The Science of Hurricanes and Other Storms
Chapter 7: Infectious Disease: Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites, Oh My
The Relationship Between Climate and Infectious Disease
Malaria and Climate Change
Other Diseases Mosquitoes Carry
Diseases from Other Insects
Diseases Carried on Ocean and Wind Currents
Foodborne Diseases
What's Next
Infectious Disease and Mental Health
Chapter 8: Food: Nature's Bounty Bashed
Plants, Climate Change, and Our Food Supply
How Crops Grow
Heat's Harm to Crops
Climate Change and Pesticide Use on Crops
Soil, Erosion, and Climate Change
Plants and Ozone
After Peak Oil and Its Effect on Food
Aquatic and Marine Food Supply
Climate Change and Food Toxins
How Much of An Effect
Meat: What We Eat Drives Climate Change
Other Climate Change Contributors
Biofuels
Climate, Food, and Mental Health
Chapter 9: Ecosystem Health: Cycles of Life or Death
Ecosystems and Our Health
Farms and Prairies
Mountains
Forests and Biodiversity
Coastal Wetland Ecosystems and Storm Buffers
Marine Ecosystems
Marine Dead Zones
Biodiversity Loss and Infectious Disease
Biodiversity Loss = Extinction
Energy and Ecosystem Health
Coal's Damage to Ecosystems
Oil's Damage to Ecosystems
Reducing the Impact of Fossil Fuels on the Climate and Ecosystems
Energy Efficiency
Geoengineering
Alternatives to Fossil Fuels
Renewable Energy
Nuclear Energy
A Final Word on Ecosystems
Chapter 10: Human Behavior: Choice to Change
Where Human Behavior and Climate Change Meet
How We Come to Behave
How We Change Our Behavior
Individuals and Climate Change
Brains and Behavior
Environmental Concern and Emotions
Thinking: Beyond Concern to Attitudes, Beliefs, Values
Personal Responsibility and Self-Efficacy
Risk Perception and Fear
Sociodemographic Variables
Hope for Individual Behavior
Community Factors and Climate Change
Economics
Government and Institutional Policies
Media and Communications
Social Identity: Norms, Connections, and Movements
Place
Other External Factors
Hope for the Meeting of Individual and Community Factors
Chapter 11: Epilogue
References Cited.
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