Emerging threats to human health from global environmental change

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 34, Issue , 2009, Pages 223-252

  Myers, Samuel S ^a   Patz, Jonathan A ^b  

^a MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Emerging threats; Land use change; Malnutrition; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGES; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; EMERGING THREATS; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HEALTH IMPACT; HUMAN HEALTH; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LAND-USE CHANGE; NATURAL DISASTERS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; POLICY MAKERS; PUBLIC HEALTH; WATER SCARCITY;

DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; LAND USE; NUTRITION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 77953743267     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.environ.033108.102650     Document Type: Article

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