(Fwd) Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health: Emerging C

[Guest guest]

I thought some in the group may be interested in the following book announcement I received from Amazon.com. I'd guess readers of Banta's book, Extreme Weather Hits Home: Protecting Your Buildings from Climate Change, might be.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health: Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions (Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology)

Hans Baer

Price: $29.95

Release Date: November 30, 2008

Product Description

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 traditional concept of disease to examine changes in subsistence and settlement patters, land-use, and lifeways, throwing the sociopolitical and economic dimensions of climate change into stark relief. Revealing the systemic structures of inequality underlying global warming, they also issue a call to action, arguing that fundamental changes in the world system are essential to the mitigation of an array of emerging health crises link to anthropogenic climate and environmental change.

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