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Climate change and human health scenario in South and Southeast Asia

Contributor(s): Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental ResearchPublication details: Switzerland Springer 2016Description: xxv, 290 pISBN:
  • 9783319236834
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 577.27 C5
Summary: This book is the first to present a regional analysis of climate change and human health, focusing on geographically and socio-economically distinct countries of South and Southeast Asia. It has a major focus on India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal and Taiwan. Climate change is a significant and emerging threat to human health. lt represents a range of environmental hazards and will affect populations in both the developed and developing countries. In particular, it affects the regions where the current burden of climate-sensitive diseases are high, which is the case in South and Southeast Asian countries. (http://www.springer.com/in/book/9783319236834)
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Table of Contents:

1. Climate Change and Geoecology of South and Southeast Asia:
An Introduction

2. Climate Change, Health and Future Well-Being in South Asia

3. Climate Change and the Health of Older People in Southeast Asia

Part I Regional Studies

4. Extreme Temperature Regions in India

5. Rapid Deglaciation on the Southeast-Facing Slopes
of Kanchenjunga Under the Present State
of Global Climate Change and Its Impact
on the Human Health in This Part of the Sikkim Himalaya

6. Scenario of Malaria and Dengue in India: Way Forward

7. Urbanization, Urban Heat Island Effects
and Dengue Outbreak in Delhi

8. Urban Industrial Development, Environmental Pollution,
and Human Health: A Case Study of East Delhi .

9. Climate Change and Human Health Impact
and Adaptation Responses in Nepal

10. Climate Change and Its Vulnerability for the Elderly in India

11. Heat Effects and Coastal Vulnerability of Population in Thailand

12. Climate Change and Health Impacts in Bangladesh

13. Health Adaptation Scenario and Dengue Fever
Vulnerability Assessment in Indonesia

14. Climate Variability and Human Health in Southeast Asia:
A Taiwan Study

15. Climate Change and Health: The Malaysia Scenario

16. Potential Effects of Climate Changes on Dengue Transmission: A Review of Empirical Evidences from Taiwan

17. Summary and Concluding Remarks

Index

This book is the first to present a regional analysis of climate change and human health, focusing on geographically and socio-economically distinct countries of South and Southeast Asia. It has a major focus on India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal and Taiwan.
Climate change is a significant and emerging threat to human health. lt represents a range of environmental hazards and will affect populations in both the developed and developing countries. In particular, it affects the regions where the current burden of climate-sensitive diseases are high, which is the case in South and Southeast Asian countries.

(http://www.springer.com/in/book/9783319236834)

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