| Description |
xi, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Globalization and the environment ; 5 |
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Globalization and the environment ; 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Anthony McMichael -- PART I. GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS -- Globalization, health, and the environment: an introduction / Greg Guest, Eric C. Jones -- Disease globalization in the third epidemiological transition / George J. Armelagos, Kristin N. Harper -- Poverty and violence, hunger and health: a political ecology of armed conflict / Thomas L. Leatherman -- PART II. CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS -- Globalization, migration, and indigenous commodification of medicinal plants in Chiapas, Mexico / David G. Casagrande -- Health ecology in Nunavut: Inuit elders' concepts of nutrition, health, and political change / Ann McElroy -- Globalization, dietary change, and "second hair" illness in two Mesoamerican cultures / George E. Luber -- PART III. POPULATION DYNAMICS -- Canadian cases of the public health implications of global environmental and economic change / John Eyles, Nicole Consitt -- Urbanization, land use, and health in Baguio City, Philippines / Mary Anne Alabanza Akers, Timothy Akers -- Globalization, demography, and nutrition: a Bekaa Bedouin case study / Suzanne E. Joseph -- PART IV. GOVERNANCE AND POLICY -- The political ecology of Dengue in Cuba and the Dominican Republic / Linda M. Whiteford, Beverly Hill -- International architecture for sustainable development and global health / Paul R. Epstein, Greg Guest. |
| Subject |
Environmental health.
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World health.
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Globalization -- Health aspects.
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Globalization -- Environmental aspects.
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Global Health.
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Environmental Health.
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Internationality.
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| Added Author |
Guest, Greg, 1963-
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| ISBN |
0759105804 cloth alkaline paper |
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0759105812 paperback alkaline paper |
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