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Environmental Change and Human Health (Hardcover)
Series: Ciba Foundation Symposium, No. 175
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Environmental Change and Human Health Chairman: Alexander J. B.
Zehnder 1993 Many aspects of the global environment are changing
now, and will continue to change in the future. There has been much
recent interest in the likelihood of systematic changes in weather
patterns, with their consequent effects on sea-levels, but some
aspects of environmental change, such as pollution, have been a
continuing subject of research for many years. Any environmental
change can ultimately affect human life, and the object of this
Ciba Foundation - EERO symposium was to discuss those aspects of
environmental change which might have direct or indirect effects on
human health. Summaries of foreseeable environmental changes,
including those to climate, sea-level and chemical pollution, are
presented. The implications of these changes for human health are
then examined in detail. The issues discussed include pollution of
air, water and soil, the effects of climate changes on agricultural
production, human nutrition and population growth, genetic disease,
radiation-induced disease, respiratory disease and exotic tropical
diseases, particularly those transmitted by insects. The effects of
deforestation, urbanization and water developments such as
irrigation and damming are considered. Problems of global
epidemiology are also discussed, as are the special problems facing
developing countries. Related Ciba Foundation Symposia: No. 177
Crop protection and sustainable agriculture Chairman: J. C. Zadoks
1993 ISBN 0 471 93944 7 No. 169 Aluminium in biology and medicine
Chairman: R. J. P. Williams 1992 ISBN 0 471 93413 5 No. 156 The
childhood environment and adult disease Chairman: D. J. P. Barker
1991 ISBN 0 471 92957 3
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