Ecosystem Crises Interactions: Human Health and the Changing Environment

ISBN-13: 9781119569541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str.

Merrill Singer

Spis treści

PrefaceChapter 1. Introduction: Public Health, Ecohealth, Planetary Health and YouFrom Individual to Public HealthEcohealth: How changes in Earth's Ecosystems Affect HealthFrom Global to Planetary HealthIntroducing Ecocrisis Interaction and HealthAge of the AnthropoceneThe Hottest Year on RecordOrganization of this BookSection I: Impact on EcosystemsChapter 2. Intricacies of EcosystemsDeveloping an Historic Understanding of Ecology and EcosystemsModern EcologyChapter 3. The Social, Economic, and Technological Making of Environmental CrisisThe Longue Durée and the Rise and Development of CapitalismPolluting ElitesThe Anthropocene or the Capitolocene?The Capitalist Global Environment and the Future of "Eaarth"Chapter 4 Engaging CatastropheChapter 5 A Home in Peril: Major Contemporary Environmental CrisesChapter 6. The Threat of Eco-crisis InteractionMultiplying RiskImpact: Case Studies of Ecocrisis InteractionSection II: Environmental CrisisChapter 7. Beyond Single Threats: Mechanisms and Pathways of InteractionConventional Single-Threat ApproachesMounting Number of Contemporary Threats and InteractionsThe Complexities of Adverse InteractionChapter 8. Climate Change, Crisis EnhancementBreaking Records: Current Climate ChangeClimate Change and Ecosystem UnderstandingClimate Change, the Primary Driver of Perilous InteractionChapter 9. Business as Deadly Usual: Resisting Environmental ScienceA Time of Questioning Environmental ScienceDeadly Business: Making and Denying Climate ChangeFinancing Climate Change DenialThe Politics of Climate Change DenialPublic Attitudes about Climate ChangeSection III: Human Health Risks with Changing EnvironmentChapter 10. Crossing ThresholdsKey Biogeochemical and Biophysical Earth System ProcessesAre there Planetary Boundaries?When Boundaries are TraversedChapter 11. Time for Change? Toward Sustainability, Toward LifeMitigation and AdaptationGlossary

O autorze

Merrill Singer, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Anthropology and Community Medicine, University of Connecticut; Senior Research Scientist, Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention, University of Connecticut.