Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Excessive Heat Events Guidebook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Extreme Heat Events Guidelines, Technical Guide for Health Care Workers
Author: Aware
Author: Climate Change and Public Health
Author: Barry S. LevyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197683290
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Now updated with key developments in mitigation and adaptation from the last decade, Climate Change and Public Health, Second Edition offers an engaging overview of climate change and its health consequences alongside evolving methods for climate resilience.
Contemporary Readings in Social Problems
Author: Anna Leon-GuerreroPublisher: Pine Forge Press
ISBN: 1412965306
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Companion reader to Anna Leon-Guerrero's Social Problems - 2nd Edition.
Losing Our Cool
Author: Stan CoxPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595586024
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Losing our Cool shows how indoor climate control is colliding with an out-of-control outdoor climate. In America, energy consumed by home air-conditioning, and the resulting greenhouse emissions, have doubled in just over a decade, and energy to cool retail stores has risen by two-thirds. Now the entire affluent world is adopting the technology. As the biggest economic crisis in eighty years rolls across the globe, financial concerns threaten to shove ecological crises into the background. Reporting from some of the world's hot zones—from Phoenix, Arizona, and Naples, Florida, to southern India—Cox documents the surprising ways in which air-conditioning changes human experience: giving a boost to the global warming that it is designed to help us endure, providing a potent commercial stimulant, making possible an impossible commuter economy, and altering migration patterns (air-conditioning has helped alter the political hue of the United States by enabling a population boom in the red-state Sun Belt). While the book proves that the planet's atmosphere cannot sustain even our current use of air-conditioning, it also makes a much more positive argument that loosening our attachment to refrigerated air could bring benefits to humans and the planet that go well beyond averting a climate crisis. Though it saves lives in heat waves, air-conditioning may also be altering our bodies' sensitivity to heat; our rates of infection, allergy, asthma, and obesity; and even our sex drive. Air-conditioning has eroded social bonds and thwarted childhood adventure; it has transformed the ways we eat, sleep, travel, work, buy, relax, vote, and make both love and war. The final chapter surveys the many alternatives to conventional central air-conditioning. By reintroducing some traditional cooling methods, putting newly emerging technologies into practice, and getting beyond industrial definitions of comfort, we can make ourselves comfortable and keep the planet comfortable, too.
Koenig and Schultz's Disaster Medicine
Author: Kristi L. KoenigPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040752
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
This is the definitive reference on disaster medicine, outlining areas of proficiency for health care professionals handling mass casualty crises.
Natural Hazards
Author: Edward A. KellerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351673718
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The new revised fifth edition of Natural Hazards remains the go-to introductory-level survey intended for university and college courses that are concerned with earth processes that have direct, and often sudden and violent, impacts on human society. The text integrates principles of geology, hydrology, meteorology, climatology, oceanography, soil science, ecology, and solar system astronomy. The textbook explains the earth processes that drive hazardous events in an understandable way, illustrates how these processes interact with our civilization, and describes how we can better adjust to their effects. Written by leading scholars in the area, the new edition of this book takes advantage of the greatly expanding amount of information regarding natural hazards, disasters, and catastrophes. The text is designed for learning, with chapters broken into small consumable chunks of content for students. Each chapter opens with a list of learning objectives and ends with revision as well as high-level critical thinking questions. A Concepts in Review feature provides an innovative end-of-chapter section that breaks down the chapter content by parts: reviewing the learning objectives, summary points, important visuals, and key terms. New case studies of hazardous events have been integrated into the text, and students are invited to actively apply their understanding of the five fundamental concepts that serve as a conceptual framework for the text. Figures, illustrations, and photos have been updated throughout. The book is designed for a course in natural hazards for nonscience majors, and a primary goal of the text is to assist instructors in guiding students who may have little background in science to understand physical earth processes as natural hazards and their consequences to society.
Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology
Author: Godfrey UzochukwuPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387884831
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Third National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology was held in Greensboro, NC, on September 12-14, 2007. This book contains the following topics: pollution prevention, fate and transport of contaminants, bioremediation, bio-processing, innovative environmental technologies, global climate change, and environmental justice.
Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes (4th Edition)
Author: Edward KellerPublisher: Pearson Higher Education AU
ISBN: 0321958055
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description