Heat Advisory
Protecting Health on a Warming Planet
$52.41
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2017
Summary
How climate change can affect our health, from heat-related illnesses to extreme weather events.
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.
Our global ecosystems create webs of interdependence that suppor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262534482 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262534487 |
| Author: | Alan H. Lockwood |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
In Heat Advisory, Lockwood outlines a model for addressing global warming and its health impacts that’s analogous to disease prevention in medicine.
-Weill Cornell Medicine …Heat Advisory is a welcome volume that is well suited for its target audience, with its main strengths being that of communicating climate science in a clear manner to a non-academic readership.
-Environmental Values
Alan H. Lockwood
Alan H. Lockwood, M.D., is Emeritus Professor of Neurology and Nuclear Medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo and a Senior Scientist at Physicians for Social Responsibility. He is the author of The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health (MIT Press).
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