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Modeling the health risks of climate change : workshop summary / Kellyn Betts and Keegan Sawyer, rapporteurs ; Standing Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Sciences ; National Research Council of the National Academies.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- National Research Council of the National Academies, issuing body.
- Conference Name:
- Standing Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions (Workshop) 2014 : Washington, D.C.), author.
- Standing Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions (Workshop)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on--Congresses.
- Climatic changes.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (49 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Climate change poses risks to human health and well-being through shifting weather patterns, increases in frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and other environmental effects. Those risks occur against a backdrop of changing socioeconomic conditions, medical technology, population demographics, environmental conditions, and other factors that are important in determining health. Models of health risks that reflect how health determinants and climate changes vary in time and space are needed so that we can inform adaptation efforts and reduce or prevent adverse health effects. Robust health risk models could also help to inform national and international discussions about climate policies and the economic consequences of action and inaction. Interest in resolving some of the challenges facing health effects modelers and health scientists led the National Research Council's Standing Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions to hold a workshop on November 3-4, 2014, in Washington, DC, to explore new approaches to modeling the human health risks of climate change. Throughout the workshop, the discussions highlighted examples of current application of models, research gaps, lessons learned, and potential next steps to improve modeling of health risks associated with climate change. Modeling the Health Risks of Climate Change summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.-- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Front Matter; ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF REVIEWERS; CONTENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW; 2 HEALTH RISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE:WHAT WE KNOW AND WHY WE MODEL; 3 MODELING HEALTH RISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: STATUS, HURDLES, AND OPPORTUNITIES; 4 APPLYING SYSTEMS THINKING TO UNDERSTAND FUTURE VULNERABILITIES; 5 MOVING FORWARD; APPENDIX A STATEMENT OF TASK; APPENDIX B WORKSHOP AGENDA; APPENDIX C WORKSHOP ATTENDEES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 4, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-309-37101-5
- 0-309-37099-X
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