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Climate chaos : your health at risk : what you can do to protect yourself and your family / Cindy L. Parker and Steven M. Shapiro.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Public healthPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.Description: xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780275998585 (hbk.)
  • 0275998584 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.988 PAR 23 008127
LOC classification:
  • RA793 .P32 2008
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Contents:
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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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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