Flood Hazards and Health - Responding to Present and Future Risks

Informationen zum Autor Roger Few is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK, an Affiliated Researcher of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and an ESRC Research Fellow on climatic hazards, health risk and response in developing countries. Franziska Matthies is a Visiting Fellow at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, an Assistant Professor at the Department for International Health at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Research Analyst for the German Advisory Council on Global Change to the Federal Government. Klappentext First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Flood hazards and the risks they present to human health are an increasing concern across the globe, in terms of lives, well-being and livelihoods, and the public resources needed to plan for, and deal with, the health impacts. This book discusses the global health implications of flooding and the future flood risk. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction * Flood Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk Reduction * The Health Impacts of Floods * Responses to the Health Risks from Flooding *The Mental Health Aspects of Floods: Evidence from England and Wales * The Mozambique Floods of 2000: Health Impact and Response * Coping with Floods in the Mekong Delta, Viet Nam * Flooding in the US: Responses from Government and the Medical and Public Health Sectors * Flood Hazards and Health: Implications for Action and Research *

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• Authors: Roger Few, Roger Matthies Few, FEW ROGER MATTHIES FRANZISKA
• Assisted by: Roger Few (Editor), Few Roger (Editor), Franziska Matthies (Editor), Matthies Franziska (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2006
• EAN: 9781844072156
• ISBN: 978-1-84407-215-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, NATURE / Natural Disasters, Environmental factors, Social impact of disasters, Natural disasters, MEDICAL / Environmental Health, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)