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Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose live and rights are threatened by disasters and climate change. The guide provides essential introductory information, principals ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Don’t Even Think About It: Why our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change.
Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change? And what does it need for us to become fully convinced of what we already know?George Marshall’s search for the answers brings him face to face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists and the activists of the Texas Tea Party; the world’s leading ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Health Practitioner’s Guide to Climate Change: Diagnosis and Cure
There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to make health services sustainable, and to design healthy, sustainable communities.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Adaptation for Health and Social Services
Written by expert researchers and practitioners, this book presents existing research, innovative practice and useful tools to support organisations taking practical steps towards adaptation to the impacts of climate change on people. It examines the evidence of climate change impacts on six of the most vulnerable population groups ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heat Advisory: Protecting Health on a Warming Planet
Climate change affects not just the planet but the people who live on it. In this book, physician Alan Lockwood describes how global warming will be bad for our health. Drawing on peer-reviewed scientific and medical research, Lockwood meticulously details the symptoms of climate change and their medical side effects.