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Interactions between Global Change and Human Health

Proceedings of Working Group
31 Oct - 2 Nov 2004
Scripta Varia 106 | Vatican City, 2006
pp. XXVIII-421 | ISBN 88-7761-085-9

Contents

Infectious Disease and Human Agency: An Historical Overview

Ann G. Carmichael

Atmospheric Brown Clouds: Health, Climate and Agriculture Impacts

V. (Ram) Ramanathan

Global Changes in Aquatic Systems and Their Interrelations with Human Health

Michel H. Meybeck

Earth System Functioning in the Anthropocene: Human Impacts on the Global Environment

Will Steffen & Eric Lambin

Biodiversity and Infectious Disease: Why We Need Nature

Andrew P. Dobson

Pre-Industrial Depopulation, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, and Global Climate

William F. Ruddiman & Ann G. Carmichael

Social and Environmental Vulnerability to Emerging Infectious Diseases

U.E.C. Confalonieri, M.E. Wilson & A.L. Najar

Our Changing Biogeophysical and Socioeconomic Environments: Influence on Infectious Diseases

Anthony J. McMichael

Food, Water, Health, and Infectious Diseases: Focus on Global Change

Mahendra M. Shah, Guenther Fischer, Harrij van Velthuizen

Global Demographic Trends, Education, and Health

Wolfgang Lutz

Globalization and Human Health: Toward Scenarios for the 21st Century

Maud Huynen & Pim Martens

Effects of Social, Environmental and Economic Factors on Current and Future Patterns of Infectious Diseases

David L. Heymann

Epidemics and Economics

David E. Bloom & David Canning

Global Governance and Human Health

Carlo Jaeger

Climate Change and Human Rights

Wolfgang Sachs

Promoting Human Health and Facing Global Changes: The Cuban Experience

Ismael Clark Arxer

Global Environmental Change and Human Health

M.O. Andreae, U.E.C. Confalonieri, A.J. McMichael, D.E. Bloom, D.L. Heymann, P. Martens, W. Steffen & M.E. Wilson