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Author : Shagoon Tabin
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Global warming
ISBN : 8131303969
Author : National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia). Working Party on the Health Effects of Ozone Layer Depletion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Atmospheric ozone
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043232227
Author : Sari Kovats,Bettina Menne,Anthony McMichael,Roberto Bertollini,Colin Soskolne
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789289013550
A balanced assessment based on currently available scientific knowledge of the effects that climate change may have on the environment in Europe and the health of its populations. Written in non-technical language the book responds to growing public and political concern about the consequences of such widely publicized phenomena as global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion. The book also responds to evidence that recent warming trends in Europe have already affected health. The book opens with a brief explanation of the causes of climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion followed by an overview of recent European and global initiatives aimed at monitoring trends and assessing their impact on health. The first main chapter on climate change in Europe summarizes currently documented trends and provides a scenario of possible changes throughout the rest of this century. The second and most extensive chapter reviews scientific evidence on specific health consequences. These include effects related to increased episodes of thermal stress and air pollution; changes in foodborne water-related vector-borne and rodent-borne diseases; mortality from floods and other weather extremes; and changes in the production of aeroallergens associated with respiratory disorders including asthma. Chapter three considers health effects linked to stratospheric ozone depletion giving particular attention to adverse effects on the eye and immune system and skin cancer. The remaining chapters discuss health effects expected in the next decade and outline actions urgently needed in the areas of policy monitoring and surveillance and research.
Author : Patrick Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Atmospheric ozone
ISBN : UCR:31210011048012
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Environmental Studies Board,Committee on Biological Effects of Increased Solar Ultraviolet Radiation,Committee on Chemistry and Physics of Ozone Depletion
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1982-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309032483
Author : Robin Russell Jones,T. Wigley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015016934336
Comprises the edited proceedings of an international conference on the health and environmental consequences of stratospheric ozone depletion, held at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, November, 1988. Contributions from members of the medical, scientific and political communities present the state of knowledge on the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect; deleterious effects of ultraviolet radiation on humans, animals and plants; alternatives to chlorofluorocarbons; and political responses to the scientific discoveries.
Author : Pim Martens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134184897
'Understanding how complex ecological and climatic change can influence human health is the new challenge before us. The book confronts these multidimensional risk assessments head-on and will catalyse the important interdisciplinary and integrated approach that is the new paradigm now required for environmental and public health research.' Dr JONATHAN PATZ Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health 'This book provides a sturdy foundation for thinking about how best to tackle a varied spectrum of population health hazards posed by different aspects and combinations of global change processes it alsogoes that extra mile by estimating the attributable population burdens of disease or mortality that are likely to result from these aspects of global change. It is heartening to see the results of this mathematical modeling being presented in policy-relevant terms.' From the Foreword by TONY McMICHAEL Health and Climate Change is the first major study of the potentially devastating health impacts of the global atmospheric changes which are under way. Using the best available data, the author presents models of the most plausible future courses of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and schistosomiasis; skin cancer caused by nozone depletion; and cardiovascular and respiratory disorders caused by higher temperatures. Current epidemiological research methods are not well adapted to analysing complex systems influenced by human intervention, or more simple processes calculated to take place within the distant future. Health and Climate Change proposes a new paradigm of integrated eco-epidemiological models for these areas of study. It will be essential reading for those concerned with public health and epidemiology, environmental studies, climate change and development studies. Originally published in 1998
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Atmospheric ozone
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009892758
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Chlorofluorocarbons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062986166
Author : Jacqueline Van de Kamp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Air
ISBN : MINN:31951D02109306Z
Author : Edward A. Parson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198035435
This book is the first comprehensive history of international efforts to protect the ozone layer, the greatest success yet achieved in managing human impacts on the global environment. Its arguments about how this success was achieved are both theoretically novel and of great significance for the management of other global problems, particularly global climate change. The book provides an account of the ozone-depletion issues from the first attempts to develop international action in the 1970s to the mature functioning of the present international regime. It examines the parallel developments of politics and negotiations, scientific understanding and controversy, technological progress, and industry strategy that shaped the issue's development and its effective management. In addition, the book offers important new insights into how the interactions among these domains influenced the formation and adaptation of the ozone regime. Addressing the initial formation of the regime, the book argues that authoritative scientific assessments were crucial in constraining policy debates and shaping negotiated agreements. Assessments gave scientific claims an ability to change policy actors' behavior that the claims themselves, however well known and verified, lacked. Concerning subsequent adaptation of the regime, the book identifies a series of feedbacks between the periodic revision of chemical controls and the strategic responses of affected industries, which drove rapid application of new approaches to reduce ozone-depleting chemicals. These feedbacks, promoted by the regime's novel technology assessment process, allowed worldwide use of the chemicals to decline further and faster than even the boldest predictions, by nearly 95 percent within ten years.
Author : Philippe G. Le Prestre,John D. Reid,E. Thomas Morehouse Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0792382455
Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Prospects Since the mid-1980s, the international community has adopted several significant instruments designed to reverse the degradation of the life support systems of the planet. None of these international agreements have been as successful as the 1987 Montreal Protocol in creating the incentives and mechanisms for protecting the ozone layer. Through the efforts of industry, government and public interest groups, national commitments and achievements have progressed further and faster than expected, while the list of controlled chemicals has expanded. Now in its second decade, the Protocol enters a crucial phase of its implementation. Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Prospects presents a wealth of information about the scientific, legal-political, and technological hurdles that we will have to overcome if humanity is to reverse its self-destructive course. The technology section in particular should appeal to industries affected by ozone layer protection as well as those affected by climate protection, since this is the first ozone publication featuring insights by the companies that spearheaded the major technological breakthroughs. Every initiative to improve the environmental performance of industry has been accompanied by pronouncements of economic devastation, from acid rain to auto emissions standards, from auto mileage improvements to the protection of the ozone layer. Each new initiative brought claims from industry that this situation was different, yet none of their predictions have come true. At a time when industry fights efforts to protect the environment, the ozone experience shows both how technical breakthroughs have enabled environmental protection policies to work in the past and how they will work again in the future. Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Prospects is the product of a Colloquium that was organized in September 1997 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Montreal Protocol. Contributions have been gathered from researchers and practitioners in the field, including some of the very same scientists whose work awakened the international community to the seriousness of the danger that humanity now faces. Other contributors include the scholars and diplomats who wrote and negotiated the text of the Protocol and its amendments, and the key figures who have been influential in convincing industry to support the process.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Atmospheric ozone
ISBN : PSU:000033691626
Author : Stephen O. Andersen,K. Madhava Sarma
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849772266
In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere, and the damage this could do to human health and the food chain. So great was the threat that by 1987 the UN had succeeded in coordinating an international treaty to phase out emissions; which, over the following 15 years has been implemented. It has been hailed as an outstanding success. It needed the participation of all the parties: governments, industry, scientists, campaigners, NGOs and the media, and is a model for future treaties. This volume provides the authoritative and comprehensive history of the whole process from the earliest warning signs to the present. It is an invaluable record for all those involved and a necessary reference for future negotiations to a wide range of scholars, students and professionals.
Author : Kirill I︠A︡kovlevich Kondratʹev,Costas Varotsos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015050118895
It is well known that the ozone layer protects the Earth and its life from the harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation of the sun. It has also been discovered that this layer was being depleted to the extent that holes were appearing in it by several substances (such as CFCs) which have since been banned. Despite this action recent studies have shown that the ozone layer is still being depleted at a rapid rate and that holes are now beginning to appear over areas which are quite densely populated. Atmospheric Ozone Variability examines the potential problems that depletion of ozone causes in relation to climate change, human health and the ecosystem. It also examines the ways in which ozone is formed and depleted as being fundamental to the debate.