Climate Change and the People's Health

ISBN-13: 9780190492731 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str.

Sharon Friel; Nancy Krieger

Recenzje

This would be a handy text for graduate courses on climate change. Apart from the clarity of presentation and the accessibility of the book, the tone is attractively positive, in the spirit of Raymond Williams' call to 'make hope practical, rather than despair convincing'.

O autorze

Sharon Friel, PhD, MsC, is Professor of Health Equity and Director of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. She is also Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy ANU. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia. Between 2005 and 2008 she was the Head of the Scientific Secretariat (University College London) of the World Health Organisation Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Her interests are in the political economy of health; policy, governance and regulation in relation to the social determinants of health inequities, including trade and investment, food systems, and climate change.