1st ed. 2019 Edition
by Toru Watanabe (Editor), Chiho Watanabe (Editor)
This book focuses on the emerging
health issues due to climate change, particularly emphasizing the
situation in developing countries. Thanks to recent development in the
areas of remote sensing, GIS technology, and downscale modeling of
climate, it has now become possible to depict and predict the
relationship between environmental factors and health-related event data
with a meaningful spatial and temporal scale. The chapters address new
aspects of environment-health relationship relevant to this smaller
scale analyses, including how considering people’s mobility changes the
exposure profile to certain environmental factors, how considering
behavioral characteristics is important in predicting diarrhea risks
after urban flood, and how small-scale land use patterns will affect the
risk of infection by certain parasites, and subtle topography of the
land profile. Through the combination of reviews and case studies, the
reader would be able to learn how the issues of health and
climate/social changes can be addressed using available technology and
datasets.
The post-2015 UN agenda has just put forward, and
tremendous efforts have been started to develop and establish
appropriate indicators to achieve the SDG goals. This book will also
serve as a useful guide for creating such an indicator associated with
health and planning, in line with the Ecohealth concept, the major tone
of this book. With the increasing and pressing needs for adaptation to
climate change, as well as societal change, this would be a very timely
publication in this trans-disciplinary field.
