Ciba Foundation Symposium 175 - Environmental Change and Human Health

Copyright © Ciba Foundation 1993

Ciba Foundation Symposium 175 - Environmental Change and Human Health

Editor(s): John V. Lake, Gregory R. Bock, Kate Ackrill

Published Online: 28 SEP 2007

Print ISBN: 9780471938422

Online ISBN: 9780470514436

DOI: 10.1002/9780470514436

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Discusses those aspects of environmental change which might have direct or indirect effects on human health. Includes discussions on water pollution, agricultural pollution, genetic disease and exotic tropical diseases as well as human nutrition and population growth.

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–viii)

    2. Introduction (page 1)

      Alexander J. B. Zehnder

    3. CO2 and the Greenhouse Effect: Present Assessment and Perspectives (pages 2–22)

      Hans Oeschger

    4. Chemical Pollution of the Environment: Past, Present and Future (pages 23–41)

      Michael R. Hoffmann

    5. River Rhine: From Sewer to the Spring of Life (pages 42–61)

      Alexander J. B. Zehnder

    6. Assessing the Greenhouse Effect in Agriculture (pages 62–79)

      R. Rabbinge, H. C. van Latesteijn and J. Goudriaan

    7. Food Quality and Human Nutrition (pages 80–103)

      W. P. T. James

    8. Soil Quality in Relation to Soil Pollution (pages 104–123)

      F. A. M. de Haan

    9. Arthropods as Disease Vectors in a Changing Environment (pages 124–145)

      R. W. Sutherst

    10. Human Tropical Diseases in a Changing Environment (pages 146–170)

      David J. Bradley

    11. Human Respiratory Disease: Environmental Carcinogens and Lung Cancer Risk (pages 171–181)

      J. C. S. Kleinjans, J. M. S. van Maanen and F. J. van Schooten

    12. Radiation-Induced Disease (pages 182–196)

      Martin Bobrow

    13. Reproductive Health, Population Growth, Economic Development and Environmental Change (pages 197–218)

      Dennis W. Lincoln

    14. Global Epidemiology (pages 219–233)

      Paul Elliott

    15. Environmental and Health Problems of Developing Countries (pages 234–246)

      David J. Bradley

    16. Evolution and Environmental Change (pages 247–263)

      John H. Edwards

    17. Summing-Up (pages 264–265)

      Alexander J. B. Zehnder

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      Index of Contributors (page 266)

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      Subject Index (pages 267–274)

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