Planetary Health
Planetary Health Human health depends on the health of the planet. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems.…
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Planetary Health
Human health depends on the health of the planet. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. Earth's natural systems--the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate--are our life support systems.
With an interdisciplinary approach, the book addresses a wide range of health impacts felt in the Anthropocene, including food and nutrition, infectious disease, non-communicable disease, dislocation and conflict, and mental health. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ourselves and the rest of the biosphere.Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves provides a readable introduction to this new paradigm. It also presents strategies to combat environmental changes and its ill-effects, such as controlling