i CLIMATE INFORMATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH ACTION
Policy-makers are increasingly concerned about the impact of climate variability and change on the health of vulnerable populations. Variations and trends in climatic factors and extreme weather events impact many health outcomes, including malaria, heat stress and undernutrition.
Climate Information for Public Health Action is based on the premise that climate knowledge and information can help protect the public from climate-sensitive health risks. With a focus on infectious disease, hydro-meteorological disasters and nutrition, the book explores why, when and how data on the historical, current and future (from days to decades) climate can be incorporated into health decision-making. Created as a collaborative effort between climate and health experts, this book targets a broad technical public health community, alongside development practitioners and policy-makers engaged in climate change adaptation. It may also guide climate experts in the development of climate services tailored to health needs. Written in an accessible, informative style, while maintaining the highest technical and scientific standards, it will also be a valuable resource for students and academics studying and working in this emerging field of environment and health.
Madeleine C. Thomson is a Senior Research Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Earth Institute, and a Senior Scholar at the Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, at Columbia University, USA.
Simon J. Mason is Chief Climate Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Earth Institute, at Columbia University, USA.
ii Routledge Studies in Environment and Health
The study of the impact of environmental change on human health has rapidly gained momentum in recent years, and an increasing number of scholars are now turning their attention to this issue. Reflecting the development of this emerging body of work, the Routledge Studies in Environment and Health series is dedicated to supporting this growing area with cutting edge interdisciplinary research targeted at a global audience. The books in this series cover key issues such as climate change, urbanisation, waste management, water quality, environmental degradation and pollution, and examine the ways in which these factors impact human health from a social, economic and political perspective.
Comprising edited collections, co-authored volumes and single author monographs, this innovative series provides an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, scholars, policy-makers and practitioners with an interest in this new and important field of study.
Ethics of Environmental Health
Edited by Friedo Zlzer and Gaston Meskens
Healthy Urban Environments
More-than-Human Theories
Cecily Maller
Climate Information for Public Health Action
Edited by Madeleine C. Thomson and Simon J. Mason
Environmental Health Risks
Ethical Aspects
Edited by Friedo Zlzer and Gaston Meskens
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Environment-and-Health/book-series/RSEH
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Names: Thomson, Madeleine C., editor. | Mason, Simon J., editor.
Title: Climate information for public health action / edited by Madeleine C. Thomson and Simon J. Mason.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in environment and health | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018022507| ISBN 9781138069633 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138069640 (paperback) | ISBN 9781315115603 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Environmental health. | Public health--Environmental aspects. | Climatic changes--Health aspects.
Classification: LCC RA565.A3 C55 2019 | DDC 362.1--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018022507
ISBN: 978-1-138-06963-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-06964-0 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-11560-3 (ebk)
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v CONTENTS
Madeleine C. Thomson, Tamer Samah Rabie, Joy Shumake-Guillemot, John McDermott, Wilmot James and Chadia Wannous
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Madeleine C. Thomson
Contributors: Delia Grace, Ruth DeFries, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Hannah Nissan and Alessandra Giannini
Madeleine C. Thomson, C. Jessica E. Metcalf and Simon J. Mason
Contributors: Adrian M. Tompkins and Mary Hayden
Simon J. Mason
Contributors: Madeleine C. Thomson
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Simon J. Mason
Contributors: ngel G. Muoz, Bradfield Lyon and Madeleine C. Thomson
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Simon J. Mason, Pietro Ceccato and Chris D. Hewitt
Contributors: Theodore L. Allen, Tufa Dinku, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Asher B. Siebert, Michelle Stanton and Madeleine C. Thomson
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Simon J. Mason and Madeleine C. Thomson
Contributors: Heat Action Group, Kim Knowlton, Hannah Nissan, ngel G. Muoz, Carlos Perez Garcia-Pando and Jeffrey Shaman
Simon J. Mason
Contributors: Madeleine C. Thomson and ngel G. Muoz
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Hannah Nissan, Madeleine C. Thomson, Simon J. Mason and ngel G. Muoz
Contributors: Glynn Vale, John W. Hargrove, Arthur M. Greene and Bradfield Lyon
Madeleine C. Thomson and Simon J. Mason
Contributors: John del Corral, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Gilma Mantilla and Cristina Li
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