Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health: Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions, Vol. 1
In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences, they present ecosyndemics as a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between environmental change and disease. They also go beyond the...
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Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences.
Introduction 71 Global Warming: A Grave Contradiction of the Capitalist World System 172 Lifeways in Peril: The Impact of Global Warming on Settlement Patterns and Human Perceptions of Climate 493 An Age of Weather Extremes: Consequences for Human Subsistence, Water, and Nutrition 694 A Disturbed Planet: Heat Stress, Pollutants, and Environmental Diseases 875 Agents of Suffering: The Spread of Waterborne and Vector-Borne Infections 1096 Ecosyndemics: The Interaction of Changing Environment and Disease 1337 Adaptation Versus Mitigation: Why Existing Climate Regimes and "Green Capitalism" Are Not Enough to Contain Global Warming 1618 Toward a Healthier Planet: The Creation of a Democratic Ecosocialist World System 187References 203Index 233About the Authors 237
