Climate Change and Human Health in Asia and the Pacific
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Publisher: World Health Organization Country Office for Myanmar
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 59
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Publisher: World Health Organization Country Office for Myanmar
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 59
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2017-07-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9292578529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAsia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world's poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated warming could largely diminish previous achievements of economic development and improvements, putting the future of the region at risk. Read the most recent projections pertaining to climate change and climate change impacts in Asia and the Pacific, and the consequences of these changes to human systems, particularly for developing countries. This report also highlights gaps in the existing knowledge and identifies avenues for continued research.
Author: Peter Curson
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780949535399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joshua Nealon
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2016-07-19
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9290617373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is serious concern about the impact of the changing climate. The WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific has taken the initiative in addressing health issues related to climate change but further action is needed to support efforts to confront climate change in Member States and in various sectors. Health must be mainstreamed into efforts to address climate change and action must be coordinated and integrated across national boundaries and in all sectors. This report synthesizes information and approaches on climate change and health pertinent to Member States in the Western Pacific Region. It also examines efforts and initiatives by various experts and stakeholders with an in-depth look at experiences in seven Member States that reflect the diversity of the Region. Finally it offers recommendations for policy-makers.
Author: Rais Akhtar
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-20
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 3319236849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first to present a regional analysis of climate change and human health, focusing on geographically and socio-economically distinct countries of South and Southeast Asia. It has a major focus on India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal and Taiwan. Climate change is a significant and emerging threat to human health. lt represents a range of environmental hazards and will affect populations in both the developed and developing countries. In particular, it affects the regions where the current burden of climate-sensitive diseases are high, which is the case in South and Southeast Asian countries.
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9290923601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClimate change will affect health in most countries in Asia and the Pacific. It will challenge the public health community at the global, regional and national levels with emerging diseases and existing diseases increasing and spreading geographically. This study aims to improve the understanding of the human health dimensions of climate change and how projects in areas other than health, such as agriculture, water financing programs, and disaster risk reduction need to account explicitly for the health impacts of their interventions.
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 147
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Manton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9400773382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommissioned by the Intergovernmental Meeting (IGM) of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), this book offers a detailed survey of the current status of climate change and climate variability in the Asia-Pacific region, a thorough and thoughtful assessment of climate and security and clear recommendations on the best paths of climate research in the future.
Author: WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2019-02-11
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9290618388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report was prepared for the Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on Health and Environment held on 6?8 October 2016 in Manila Philippines. The report presents the state of the environment and health in the 14 countries of the Regional Forum based on country profiles and United Nations and World Health Organization statistics. This updated version incorporates inputs from Member States at the Regional Forum. The report provides a snapshot of progress among these countries on relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 2 (End hunger achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture); SDG 3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages); SDG 6 (Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all); SDG 7 (Ensure access to affordable reliable sustainable and modern energy for all); SDG 11 (Make cities and human settlements inclusive safe resilient and sustainable); and SDG 13 (Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts).
Author: Lorraine M. Elliott
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0415684897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes an important and timely contribution to debates about the relationship between climate change and security in Southeast Asia. It does so through a human security lens, drawing on local and regional expertise to discuss the threats that climate change poses to human security in Southeast Asia and to show how a human security approach draws attention to the importance of adaptation and strategies for social resilience. In doing so, it exposes the consequences of climate change, the impact on community rights and access, the special problem of border areas, before going on to investigate local and regional strategies for addressing the human security challenges of climate change.