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A New Conceptual Base for Food and Agricultural Policy: The Emerging Model of...

Everywhere in the world, food and agricultural policy is under scrutiny. Questions are being asked about both past and present public policy and strategy. The motives for reassessment are various,...

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Infections and Inequalities

Anthrax. The word conjures images of germ warfare, which is pretty ridiculous when you discover that we're not really sure anthrax has ever been used in this fashion. Germ warfare is certainly not what...

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Inequality, Global Change and the Sustainability of Civilisation

The increasingly global capacity of civilisation to manipulate natural and human capital has fuelled faith in the economic conceit that humankind can be freed from its dependence on nature. In...

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Environmental Change and Human Health in the Brazilian Amazon

The Amazon is a vast region of about 7 million km2, encompassing nine countries in the northern part of South America. Around 70% of the Amazon, or approximately 5 million km2, are within the Brazilian...

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Errata Content Type Journal ArticlePages 131-131DOI 10.1023/A:1017317126774 Journal Global Change & Human HealthOnline ISSN 1573-7314Print ISSN 1389-5702 Journal Volume Volume 1 Journal Issue...

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Global Change and Human Health: Reviews on Globalisation, Environmental...

Global Change and Human Health: Reviews on Globalisation, Environmental Change and Health Content Type Journal ArticleCategory ForewordPages 92-92DOI 10.1023/A:1017374109027 Journal Global Change &...

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New Body Faces Global Health Crisis, Demands 'Revolution in World Food Policy'

New Body Faces Global Health Crisis, Demands 'Revolution in World Food Policy' Content Type Journal ArticlePages 110-115DOI 10.1023/A:1017365009935 Journal Global Change & Human HealthOnline ISSN...

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Editors

Editors Content Type Journal ArticleCategory BiographyPages 93-93DOI 10.1023/A:1017313025865 Journal Global Change & Human HealthOnline ISSN 1573-7314Print ISSN 1389-5702 Journal Volume Volume 1...

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Summary of the Regional Workshop on Climate Variability and Change and their...

Summary of the Regional Workshop on Climate Variability and Change and their Health Effects in Pacific Island Countries Content Type Journal ArticlePages 132-133DOI 10.1023/A:1010033310844Authors Cindy...

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Climate Change and the Disappearance of Malaria from England

As the world's climate continues to change there is concern that this may cause malaria to spread to new areas. Here we examine whether past changes in temperature, in addition to social changes, may...

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Maurice Strong: "Where on Earth Are We Going?"

Maurice Strong: "Where on Earth Are We Going?" Content Type Journal ArticlePages 154-155DOI 10.1023/A:1010021227682Authors Colin L. Soskolne, Department of Public Health Sciences University of Alberta...

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Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events; Implications for Food Production,...

Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events; Implications for Food Production, Plant Diseases, and Pests Content Type Journal ArticlePages 90-104DOI 10.1023/A:1015086831467Authors Cynthia RosenzweigAna...

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Death, Disease and Deformity; Using Outbreaks in Animals as Sentinels for...

In "Airs, Waters and Places, " Hippocrates taught aspiring physicians that, to understand their patient's illness, they needed to understand their patient's environment. He recognized that people's...

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Globalization and Biology; The Role of Coevolution in the Process of Global...

If we think of globalization as a process that has been under way for at least ten millennia, we can see the importance of biological forces in the process. The interconnectedness of biology and...

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Editors

Editors Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Editorial IntroductionPages 88-88DOI 10.1023/A:1017451400516 Journal Global Change & Human HealthOnline ISSN 1573-7314Print ISSN 1389-5702 Journal...

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Pfiesteria Piscicida; A New Biological Threat with Many Faces

In 1988, Drs. JoAnn Burkholder and Ed Noga of North Carolina State University discovered a previously unknown toxic dinoflagellate that eventually was named Pfiesteria piscicida. Accumulating data...

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Editors' Foreword; An American Perspective on the September 11 Terrorist Events

Editors' Foreword; An American Perspective on the September 11 Terrorist Events Content Type Journal ArticleCategory ForewordPages 89-89DOI 10.1023/A:1015085817355Authors Jonathan A Patz Journal Global...

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West Nile Virus and Drought

West Nile virus was first reported in Uganda in 1937. WNV is a zoonosis, with "spill-over" to humans, which also poses significant risks for wildlife, zoo and domestic animal populations. While it is...

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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Content Type Journal ArticlePages 118-118DOI 10.1023/A:1017437918263 Journal Global Change & Human HealthOnline ISSN 1573-7314Print ISSN 1389-5702 Journal Volume...

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Bjorn Lomborg, The Sceptical Environmentalist

Bjorn Lomborg, the "sceptical environmentalist", argues that anxious environmentalists have got it wrong. The world's environment is basically doing fine, he says, despite the increase in humankind's...

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Tony McMichael: "Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease — Past Patterns,...

Tony McMichael: "Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease — Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures" Content Type Journal ArticlePages 119-119DOI 10.1023/A:1015042019172Authors Rainer Sauerborn Journal...

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Global Health Studies Based on Local Realities

A major new programme launched by the US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Council forInternational Exchange of Scholars will examine the "Challenges of Health in a Borderless World"....

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The Global Dimensions of Cholera

Abstract   Cholera remains among the most feared infectious diseases. The first six pandemics of cholera, beginning in 1817, were major public health emergencies, inflicting high morbidity and...

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Instructions to Authors Global Change and Human Health; Reviews on...

Instructions to Authors Global Change and Human Health; Reviews on Globalisation, Environmental Change and Health Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Instructions for AuthorsPages 153-154DOI...

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Bioterrorism: A ‘New’ Global Environmental Health Threat

Abstract  Biological weapons represent a unique "environmental" hazard. The pathogens involved are natural in the sense that they are risks that naturally occur in our environment. However they are...

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Global Climate Change — the Latest Assessment: Does Global Warming Warrant a...

Abstract  Global climate change is a qualitatively distinct, and very significant, addition to the spectrum of environmental health hazards encountered by humankind. Historically, environmental health...

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Dust in the Wind: Long Range Transport of Dust in the Atmosphere and Its...

Abstract  Movement of soil particles in atmospheres is a normal planetary process. Images of Martian dust devils (wind-spouts) and dust storms captured by NASA's Pathfinder have demonstrated the...

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Editors

Editors Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Editorial IntroductionPages 2-2DOI 10.1023/A:1017402028009 Journal Global Change & Human HealthOnline ISSN 1573-7314Print ISSN 1389-5702 Journal Volume...

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Viral Traffic, Transnational Companies and Logging in Liberia, West Africa

Viral Traffic, Transnational Companies and Logging in Liberia, West Africa Content Type Journal ArticleCategory CommentaryPages 18-19DOI 10.1023/A:1011939030734Authors Richard A. Nisbett, Texas Tech...

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Editors' Foreword; Climate, Global Environmental Change and Health:...

Editors' Foreword; Climate, Global Environmental Change and Health: International Scientific Assessments Begin to Roll Content Type Journal ArticleCategory ForewordPages 3-4DOI 10.1023/A:1017478729826...

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SPARC (Stratospheric Processes and Their Role in Climate) and Health

Abstract  There has been increasing recognition of the link between human activity and natural and man-made systems. Policies and programs designed to achieve sustainable development and human health,...

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Global and Local (Glocal) Health: The WHO Healthy Cities Programme

Abstract  Urban health is likely to be one of the momentous challenges of the twenty-first century. Ever increasing numbers of people move to urban environments; the failure to adequately link urban...

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Predicting Malaria Epidemics in the Kenyan Highlands Using Climate Data: A...

Abstract  While the underlying cause of malaria epidemics in the East African highlands remains a subject of debate, we argue that permissive climatic conditions in the normally cool highlands are...

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Global Warming and Risk of Vivax Malaria in Great Britain

Abstract   Malaria (ague) was once common in many parts of Great Britain (GB). Here we identify areas currently at risk from vivax malaria and examine how this pattern may change as a consequence of...

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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment; Brief Report on the First Technical Design...

Without Abstract Content Type Journal ArticleCategory CommentaryPages 78-79DOI 10.1023/A:1011999316622Authors Carlos F. Corvalan, World Health Organization Department of Protection of the Human...

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Transitions in Human Health: Surviving This Millennium by Learning from the...

Abstract  We have been living through several decades of great and rapid changes in the human condition. Life expectancies increased markedly during the twentieth century; populations are becoming...

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Injury and Environmental Epidemiology, a converging agenda

Abstract  Reliance on motor vehicle travel and the internal combustion engine has provided mobility, but the public health costs are substantial: Road deaths, adverse deleterious health effects from...

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Eco-epidemiology: On the Need to Measure Health Effects from Global Change

Abstract  To prevent harm to human health from degrading ecosystems, epidemiologists need useful indicators that are sensitive to those shifts in health status that might parallel these declines....

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Population Movements and Tropical Health

Abstract  Through time people have been mobile, for a variety of complex reasons at a range of scales from local through regional and continental to intercontinental. Some are voluntary, others are...

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Population Belongs on the Johannesburg Agenda

Abstract  The forthcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg (August 26-September 4, 2002) has been set by the United Nations to consider strategies toward sustainable...

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Population Health, Environment and Economic Development

Abstract  There are fundamental links between population health, environment and economic development. The ultimate goal of economic development is to improve the quality of human life and increase...

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Editors

Editors Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Editorial BoardPages 2-2DOI 10.1023/A:1019656729070 Journal Global Change & Human HealthOnline ISSN 1573-7314Print ISSN 1389-5702 Journal Volume Volume...

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Global Change and Health — The Good, The Bad and The Evidence

Abstract  Debates over the merits and demerits of globalisation for health are increasingly polarised. Conclusions range from globalisation being essentially positive for health, albeit with a need to...

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Editors' Foreword: Population, Environment, Societies and Health: Elucidating...

Without Abstract Content Type Journal ArticleCategory ForewordPages 3-3DOI 10.1023/A:1019660929979Authors Tony McMichael Journal Global Change & Human HealthOnline ISSN 1573-7314Print ISSN...

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The Skeptical Environmentalist: A Sociocultural Perspective

Abstract  Bjorn Lomborg's critique of environmentalism has been praised by The Economist as ‘right’ on its main points and ‘just’ in its criticism of much green activism, and damned by Scientific...

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Assessment of Associations Between Climate and Infectious Diseases: A...

Abstract   This comparative review of three assessment reports, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC), The National Research Council (NRC), and United States Global Change Research...

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Climate Suitability: For Stable Malaria Transmission in Zimbabwe Under...

Abstract   As climate is one factor determining the potential range of malaria, climate change may work with or against efforts to bring malaria under control. We developed a model of future climate...

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Instructions to Authors

Instructions to Authors Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Instructions for AuthorsPages 75-76DOI 10.1023/A:1019681417684 Journal Global Change & Human HealthOnline ISSN 1573-7314Print ISSN...

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In Memoriam: David le Sueur

In Memoriam: David le Sueur Content Type Journal ArticleCategory BiographyPages 74-74DOI 10.1023/A:1019629400846 Journal Global Change & Human HealthOnline ISSN 1573-7314Print ISSN 1389-5702...

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Transitions in a Globalising World

Without Abstract Content Type Journal ArticlePages 73-73DOI 10.1023/A:1019677316775Authors H.J. Schellnhuber, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,...

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