Climate change and the health of nations
Subtitle: famines, fevers, and the fate of populations
By: Anthony J. McMichael with Alistair Woodward and Cameron Muir
Contributors: Woodward, Alistair, author; Muir, Cameron, author
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780190262952
Subjects: Human beings; Climatic changes; Effect of climate on; Health aspects
Description: xx, 370 pages : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A restless climate; title: Climatic choreography of health and disease; title: From Cambrian explosion to first farmers : how climate made us human; title: Spread of farming, new diseases, and rising civilizations : mid-holocene optimum; title: Eurasian bronze age : unsettled climatic times; title: Romans, Mayans, and Anasazi : the classical optimum to droughts in the Americas; title: Little ice age : Europe, China, and beyond; title: Weather extremes in modern times; title: Humans throughout the holocene; title: Facing the future.