Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health
Nick Watts,W. Neil Adger,Paolo Agnolucci,Jason J. Blackstock,Peter Byass,Wenjia Cai,Sarah Chaytor,Tim Colbourn,Matthew Collins,Adam Cooper,Peter M. Cox,Joanna Depledge,Paul Drummond,Paul Ekins,Victor Galaz,Delia Grace,Hilary Graham,Michael Grubb,Andy Haines,Ian Hamilton,Alasdair Hunter,Xujia Jiang,Moxuan Li,Ilan Kelman,Lu Liang,Melissa C. Lott,Robert Lowe,Yong Luo,Georgina M. Mace,Mark A. Maslin,Maria Nilsson,Tadj Oreszczyn,Steve Pye,Tara Quinn,My Svensdotter,Sergey Venevsky,Koko Warner,Bing Xu,Jun Yang,Yongyuan Yin,Chaoqing Yu,Qiang Zhang,Peng Gong,Hugh Montgomery,Anthony Costello +44 more
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The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been formed to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in order to ensure the highest attainable stand-alone position on climate change.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-11-07 and is currently open access. It has received 1198 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Political economy of climate change & Health policy.read more
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Climate change 2014 - Mitigation of climate change
TL;DR: The work of the IPCC Working Group III 5th Assessment report as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change, which has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality and comprehensiveness.
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The Lancet Commission on pollution and health
Philip J. Landrigan,Richard Fuller,Nereus J R Acosta,Olusoji Adeyi,Robert G. Arnold,Niladri Basu,Abdoulaye Bibi Baldé,Roberto Bertollini,Stephan Bose-O'Reilly,Stephan Bose-O'Reilly,Jo Ivey Boufford,Patrick N. Breysse,Thomas C. Chiles,Chulabhorn Mahidol,Awa M Coll-Seck,Maureen L. Cropper,Julius N. Fobil,Valentin Fuster,Valentin Fuster,Michael Greenstone,Andy Haines,David Hanrahan,David J. Hunter,Mukesh Khare,Alan Krupnick,Bruce P. Lanphear,Bindu Lohani,Keith Martin,Karen V Mathiasen,Maureen A. McTeer,Christopher J L Murray,Johanita D Ndahimananjara,Frederica P. Perera,Janez Potočnik,Alexander S Preker,Alexander S Preker,Jairam Ramesh,Johan Rockström,Carlos Salinas,Leona D. Samson,Karti Sandilya,Peter D. Sly,Kirk R. Smith,Achim Steiner,Richard B. Stewart,William A. Suk,Onno C. P. van Schayck,Gautam N. Yadama,Kandeh K. Yumkella,Ma Zhong +49 more
TL;DR: This book is dedicated to the memory of those who have served in the armed forces and their families during the conflicts of the twentieth century.
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The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report
Boyd Swinburn,Boyd Swinburn,Vivica I. Kraak,Steven Allender,Vincent J Atkins,Phillip Baker,Jessica R. Bogard,Hannah Brinsden,Alejandro Calvillo,Olivier De Schutter,Raji Devarajan,Majid Ezzati,Sharon Friel,Shifalika Goenka,Ross A. Hammond,Ross A. Hammond,Gerard Hastings,Corinna Hawkes,Mario Herrero,Peter S. Hovmand,Mark Howden,Lindsay M. Jaacks,Ariadne Beatrice Kapetanaki,Matt Kasman,Harriet V. Kuhnlein,Shiriki K. Kumanyika,Bagher Larijani,Tim Lobstein,Michael W. Long,Victor K R Matsudo,Susanna Mills,Gareth J. Morgan,Alexandra B. Morshed,Patricia M. Nece,An Pan,David Patterson,Gary Sacks,Meera Shekar,Geoff L Simmons,Warren Smit,Ali Tootee,Stefanie Vandevijvere,Wilma Waterlander,Luke Wolfenden,William H. Dietz +44 more
TL;DR: This work aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about concrete mechanical properties such as E-modulus and compressive strength.
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health
Sarah Whitmee,Andy Haines,Chris Beyrer,Frederick Boltz,Anthony Capon,Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias,Alex Ezeh,Howard Frumkin,Peng Gong,Peter Head,Richard Horton,Georgina M. Mace,Robert Marten,Robert Marten,Samuel S. Myers,Sania Nishtar,Steven A. Osofsky,Subhrendu K. Pattanayak,Montira J Pongsiri,Cristina Romanelli,Agnes Soucat,Jeanette Vega,Derek Yach +22 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends: conceptual and empathy failures (imagination challenges), such as an overreliance on gross domestic product as a measure of human progress, the failure to account for future health and environmental harms over present day gains, and the disproportionate eff ect of those harms on the poor and those in developing nations.
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