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The potential of recurrent epidemics and pandemics in a highly mobile global society
The aim of this study was to demonstrate how latent epidemics can potentially evolve into a pandemic instantaneously due to globally mobile human...
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Interaction of the recent 50 year SST trend and La Niña 2010: amplification of the Southern Annular Mode and Australian springtime rainfall
Australia experienced record high rainfall in austral spring 2010, which has previously been attributed to the concurrence of a strong La Niña event...
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Water Resources Management for Sustainable Environmental Public Health
Water is essential for life and social and economic development. Its exploitation and use must be well planned and managed in a sustainable manner....
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Livelihood Security: Implications from Aquaculture Sectors
Both aquaculture and fisheries have long been an integral part of life of the people of Bangladesh. The sector, second only to agriculture in the...
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Hydro-Epidemiology of the Nile Basin: Understanding the Complex Linkages Between Water and Infectious Diseases
The human population of the Nile basin has been vulnerable to water-associated diseases since the dawn of history. In the modern landscape, water...
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Climate and health in Africa
This paper describes the work of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and its partners towards the development of...
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Basic Psychological Needs Influencing the Regularity of Domestic Rainwater Tank Maintenance
Inadequate and irregular maintenance of rainwater tanks can lead to health risks, affecting individual users (e.g. home owners and others who may...
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Projected SST trends across the Caribbean Sea based on PRECIS downscaling of ECHAM4, under the SRES A2 and B2 scenarios
The Caribbean Sea and adjacent land areas are highly sensitive to the projected impacts of global climate change. The countries bordering the...
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Impact of global change on transmission of human infectious diseases
Global change, which refers to large-scale changes in the earth system and human society, has been changing the outbreak and transmission mode of...
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Investigating Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases with Remote Sensing and GIS
For centuries, people have been intuitively aware of the relationships between human health and the environment. Today, geographic information...
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Climate change and infectious diseases: Can we meet the needs for better prediction?
The next generation of climate-driven, disease prediction models will most likely require a mechanistically based, dynamical framework that...
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Halotolerant Life in Feast or Famine: Organic Sources of Hydrocarbons and Fixers of Metals
A hydrocarbon source rock s generally considered to be a finegrained rock that, during its burial and heating, generates and releases enough fluids...
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Health
This chapter presents a review and new scientific evidence on climate change health risks in the Mediterranean. It summarizes the results of the work...
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Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Flood Risk Management
This paper describes a framework for multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) for flood risk management. To date, most models assessing flood impacts...
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Anthropogenic Climate Change: Observed Facts, Projected Vulnerabilities and Knowledge Gaps
Rising temperatures on earth especially during the later half of the twentieth century have been largely attributed to increasing greenhouse gases...
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GIS in Human Health Studies
Databases used in the field of medical geology are generally comprised of geospatial and/or temporal elements. Although these are not requirements...
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Urban Poverty, Climate Change and Health Risks for Slum Dwellers in Bangladesh
The health and rights of populations living in urban slum settlements against the backdrop of increasing risks and disasters brought on by climate...
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Health Impacts of Climate and Environmental Change: Awareness and Challenges to Adaptation
Taking a point of departure in current knowledge about the existing health situation in Vietnam and insights into interrelationships between social,...
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Structure, Biological Activity and Environmental Fate of Insecticidal Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) Cry Proteins of Bacterial and Genetically Modified Plant Origin
The properties and environmental fate of insecticidal proteins produced by the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis are reviewed. These proteins, either...