Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health: Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions

by Baer,Hans

• ISBN13: 9781598743548
• ISBN10: 1598743546
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences, they present ecosyndemics as a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between environmental change and disease. They also go beyond the traditional concept of disease to examine changes in subsistence and settlement patters, land-use, and lifeways, throwing the sociopolitical and economic dimensions of climate change into stark relief. Revealing the systemic structures of inequality underlying global warming, they also issue a call to action, arguing that fundamental changes in the world system are essential to the mitigation of an array of emerging health crises link to anthropogenic climate and environmental change.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Global Warming: A Grave Contradiction of the Capitalist World System	p. 17
Lifeways in Peril: The Impact of Global Warming on Settlement Patterns and Human Perceptions of Climate	p. 49
An Age of Weather Extremes: Consequences for Human Subsistence, Water, and Nutrition	p. 69
A Disturbed Planet: Heat Stress, Pollutants, and Environmental Diseases	p. 87
Agents of Suffering: The Spread of Waterborne and Vector-Borne Infections	p. 109
Ecosyndemics: The Interaction of Changing Environment and Disease	p. 133
Adaptation Versus Mitigation: Why Existing Climate Regimes and "Green Capitalism" Are Not Enough to Contain Global Warming	p. 161
Toward a Healthier Planet: The Creation of a Democratic Ecosocialist World System	p. 187
References	p. 203
Index	p. 233
About the Authors	p. 237
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