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Ecosystem change and public health: a global perspective/ edited by Joan L. Aron and Jonathan A. Patz - Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. - xxiii, 480 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

Part I: Approached --
Information on issues of global change / Erika G. Feulner --
Epidemiological study designs / Alfred A. Buck and Joan L. Aron --
Geographic information systems / Joan L. Aron and Gregory E. Glass --
Science/policy interface / Jonathan M. Samet --
Integrated assessment / Joan L. Aron, J. Hugh Ellis, and Benjamin F. Hobbs --
Part II: Environmental changes --
Human populations in the shared environment / Dennis C. Pirages, Paul J. Runci, and Robert H. Sprinkle --
Changing chemistry of Earth's atmosphere / Steven A. Lloyd --
Earth science perspective on global change / George W. Fisher --
Water resources management / Nicolaas J.P.M. de Groot --
Ecology and infectious disease / Mark L. Wilson --
Part III: Case studies --
Cholera and global ecosystems / Anwar Huq, R. Bradley Sack, and Rita R. Colwell --
Malaria and global ecosystem change / Joan L. Aron, Clive J. Shiff, and Alfred A. Buck --
Global climate change and air pollution: interactions and their effects on human health / Jonathan A. Patz and John M. Balbus --
Too little, too much: how the quantity of water affects human health / Les Roberts, Ulisses E.C. Confalonieri, and Joan L. Aron --
Stimulating inquiry: textbooks and information literacy in the internet environment / Erika G. Feulner --
Resource center / Erika G. Feulner.

ISBN: 9780801865824 0801865824

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Environmental health
Public health

Dewey Class. No.: 614.4 / ARO/E