Environment and health in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh : historical and contemporary scenario / editor, Rais Akhtar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akhtar, Rais, 1946- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental health--India--Jammu and Kashmir.

Environmental health.

Environmental health--India--Ladākh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Prof. Rais Akhtar has taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; the University of Zambia, Lusaka; and the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. He is the first geographer who published his research in medical geography and climate change and health in national and international journals, including the prestigious medical journal The Lancet. He has published to his credit more than 100 research papers and 21 books in India and abroad, including Greenwood Press, New York; Harwood Academic publisher, London; and Springer. His books include Health and Disease in Tropical Africa: Medical and Geographical Viewpoints (London, 1987), Health Care Patterns and Planning in Developing Countries (1990), Malaria in South Asia (2010), Climate Change and Human Health Scenario in South and Southeast Asia (2016), Climate Change and Air Pollution (2018), Extreme Weather Events and Human Health (2020), Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreaks, Environment and Human Behaviour (2021) and Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreaks, Vaccination, Politics and Society: The Continuing Challenge (2022). Prof. Rais Akhtar is the recipient of a number of international fellowships including Leverhulme Overseas Visiting Fellow (University of Liverpool); Henry Chapman Fellow, University of London; Commonwealth Secretariat Fellowship, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London; Visiting Fellow, University of Sussex and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Royal Society Short Visiting Fellowship, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor, University of Paris, Nanterre, Paris-10; Visiting Fellowship, Free University of Brussels, Belgium; French Government Visiting Fellowship and MSH Visiting Fellow, Paris; Visiting Fellow, Welcome Trust, London; and Visiting Lecturer, University of Akron, USA.

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Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Environment and health in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh

ISBN:

9781003329459

1003329454

9781000963106

1000963101

9781000963021

1000963020

Publisher Number:

40032069377

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