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Author:   Colin D. Butler ,  Jane Dixon ,  Anthony G. Capon
Publisher:   ANU Press
Imprint:   ANU Press
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9781925022407

ISBN 10:   1925022404
Pages:   690
Publication Date:   01 July 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part 1: Introduction Reprint A: Preface to 'Planetary Overload: Global Environmental Change and the Health of the Human Species' From Silent Spring to the Threat of a Four-Degree World A Long Collaboration Much Said, Much to be Done Reprint B: Prisoners of the Proximate: Loosening the Constraints on Epidemiology in an Age of Change Part 2: Healthy Workers Reprint C: Standardized Mortality Ratios and the 'Healthy Worker Effect': Scratching Beneath the Surface Occupational Stress A Public Health Approach to Environmental and Occupational Health Problems in Developing Countries Tales of Occupational Cancer Reprint D: Port Pirie Cohort Study: Environmental Exposure to Lead and Children's Abilities at the Age of Four Years Environmental Lead Exposure and Childhood Development Shining Light on Human Immunity Studying the Thai Health Risk Transition Climate Change and Environmental Influences on Australia's Population Distribution Globalisation and the Epigenetic Landscape Uses and Misuses of Epidemiology Part 4: Nutrition and Food Systems Reprint E: Diet and Cancer of the Colon and Rectum: A Case-Control Study Monocultures: A Blight on Human and Planetary Health Global Food Security, Population and Limits to Growth Reprint F: Social and Cultural Perspectives Eco-nutrition, Ecosystems and Health Revisiting the 'Urban Bias' and its Relationship to Food Security Part 5: Climate Change and Health Reprint G: Global Warming, Ecological Disruption and Human Health: The Penny Drops Fragile Paradise From Social Reform to Social Transformation Climate Change, Health and Well-being in Indigenous Australia The Sociocultural Context of Climate Change Adaptation in Australia, with a Focus on Hot Weather Archived Newspaper Reports as a Complementary Source of Epidemiological Data for Research into Climate Change Adaptation Health Co-benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Policies From Grass Roots to Government Part 6: Ecosystem Change, Infectious Diseases and Well-being Reprint H: Social and Environmental Risk Factors in the Emergence of Infectious Diseases Climate Change, Ross River Virus and Biodiversity Detection and Attribution of Climate Change Effects on Infectious Diseases Patterns of Ecological Change and Emerging Infectious Disease in the Australasian Region Biodiversity Keeps People Healthy A Case Study of Urban Trees, Public Health and Social Equity Reflections on the Virulence of Infections Part 7: Transformation Reprint I: The Sustainability Transition: A New Challenge Managing Decline Elemental Epidemiology Freeing Policy from the Proximate You've Got to be Careful if You Don't Know Where You're Going Because You Might Not Get There (Yogi Berra) Climate Change, Violence, and the Afterlife On the Need to Transform Governance to Regulate Corporations for the Survival of Homo Sapiens Human Habitat and Health Transforming Human Society from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism Ecological Public Health  

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