1st Edition

Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions

By Hans Baer, Merrill Singer Copyright 2009
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences, they present ecosyndemics as a new paradigm for... Read more
Chapter 101 Introduction; Chapter 1 Global Warming; Chapter 2 Lifeways in Peril; Chapter 3 An Age of Weather Extremes; Chapter 4 A Disturbed Planet; Chapter 5 Agents of Suffering; Chapter 6 Ecosyndemics; Chapter 7 Adaptation Versus Mitigation; Chapter 8 Toward a Healthier Planet;

Biography

Baer, Hans; Singer, Merrill