Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Primer on Climate Science (Christopher K. Uejio, James D. Tamerius, Karen Wertz, and Katie M. Konchar)
Chapter 2 Extreme Weather Events: The Role of Public Health in Disaster Risk Reduction as a Means for Climate Change Adaptation (Mark E. Keim, M.D.)
Chapter 3 Climate Change Impacts on the Hydrological Cycle and Waterborne Diseases (Jan C. Semenza)
Chapter 4 Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide and Public Health: The Plant Biology Perspective (Lewis H. Ziska and Kris L. Ebi)
Chapter 5 Climate and its Impacts on Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases (Charles B. Beard, Jada F. Garofalo, and Kenneth L. Gage)
Chapter 6 Increased Risks from Cyanobacteria and Algae Blooms (Lorraine C. Backer)
Chapter 7 Ozone, Oppressive Air Masses & Degraded Air Quality (Kim Knowlton)
Chapter 8 Climate Change and Population Mental Health (Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, and Sandro Galea)
Chapter 9 Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change to Food Security, Safety and Nutrition (Tirado, MC)
Chapter 10 Climate and Health Vulnerability Assessments: A Practical Approach (Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Joy Guillemot, and Kristie Ebi)
Chapter 11 Climate Change Health Impact Projections: Looking into the Future (Jeremy Hess)
Chapter 12 Extreme and Changing Meteorological Conditions on the Human Health Condition (Daniel P. Johnson and Austin C. Stanforth)
Chapter 13 Climate Change Adaptation: Historic Perspective, Framing, and Future Directions (Kristie L. Ebi)
Chapter 14 Protecting Environmental Justice Communities from the Detrimental Impacts of Climate Change (Cecilia Martinez and Nicky Sheats)
Chapter 15 Improving the surveillance of Climate-Sensitive Diseases (Pierre Gosselin, Diane Bélanger, Mathilde Pascal, Philippe Pireaux, and Christovam Barcellos)
Chapter 16 Climate Change Communication (Stuart Capstick, Adam Corner, and Nick Pidgeon)
Chapter 17 Health Co-Benefits of Climate Mitigation Strategies (Linda Rudolph and Maxwell J. Richardson)
Chapter 18 Mitigation: International Institutions and Global Governance (Perry Sheffield and Farah Faisal)
Chapter 19 Community-Based Sentinel Surveillance as an Innovative Tool to Measure the Health Effects of CC in remote Alaska (David L. Driscoll)
Chapter 20 Climate Change and the Right to Health (Carmel Williams)