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- catalog abstract ""This account charts the relentless trajectory of humankind and its changing survival patterns across time and landscape, from when our ancestors roamed the African savannah to today's populous, industrialised, globalising world. This expansion of human frontiers - geographic, climatic, cultural and technological - has entailed many setbacks from disease, famine and depleted resources. The changes in human ecology due to agrarianism, industrialisation, fertility control, social modernisation, urbanisation and modern lifestyles have profoundly affected patterns of health and disease. Today, while life expectancies rise, Earth's ecosystems are being disrupted by the combined weight of population size and intensive consumption. The resultant climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity and other environmental changes pose risks to human health, perhaps survival. Recognising how population health, long term, depends on environmental conditions, can we achieve a transition to sustainability?"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12191107.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""This account charts the relentless trajectory of humankind and its changing survival patterns across time and landscape, from when our ancestors roamed the African savannah to today's populous, industrialised, globalising world. This expansion of human frontiers - geographic, climatic, cultural and technological - has entailed many setbacks from disease, famine and depleted resources. The changes in human ecology due to agrarianism, industrialisation, fertility control, social modernisation, urbanisation and modern lifestyles have profoundly affected patterns of health and disease. Today, while life expectancies rise, Earth's ecosystems are being disrupted by the combined weight of population size and intensive consumption. The resultant climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity and other environmental changes pose risks to human health, perhaps survival. Recognising how population health, long term, depends on environmental conditions, can we achieve a transition to sustainability?"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Disease patterns in human biohistory -- Human biology: the Pleistocene inheritance -- Adapting to diversity: climate, food and infection -- Infectious disease: humans and microbes coevolving -- The Third Horseman: food, farming and famines -- The industrial era: the Fifth Horseman? -- Longer lives and lower birth rates -- Modern affluence: lands of milk and honey -- Cities, social environments and synapses -- Global environmental change: overstepping limits -- Health and disease: an ecological perspective -- Footprints to the future: treading less heavily.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-401) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 413 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521004942 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "052180311X (hbk.)".
- catalog identifier "9780521004947 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "9780521803113 (hbk.)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "2001 I-828".
- catalog subject "304.2 21".
- catalog subject "362.1 21".
- catalog subject "Climatic changes Health aspects.".
- catalog subject "Diseases and history.".
- catalog subject "Ecology.".
- catalog subject "Global Health.".
- catalog subject "Human ecology.".
- catalog subject "RA441 .M427 2001".
- catalog subject "Social Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Sustainable development.".
- catalog subject "WA 31 M478h 2001".
- catalog subject "World Health.".
- catalog subject "World health.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Disease patterns in human biohistory -- Human biology: the Pleistocene inheritance -- Adapting to diversity: climate, food and infection -- Infectious disease: humans and microbes coevolving -- The Third Horseman: food, farming and famines -- The industrial era: the Fifth Horseman? -- Longer lives and lower birth rates -- Modern affluence: lands of milk and honey -- Cities, social environments and synapses -- Global environmental change: overstepping limits -- Health and disease: an ecological perspective -- Footprints to the future: treading less heavily.".
- catalog title "Human frontiers, environments, and disease : past patterns, uncertain futures / Tony McMichael.".
- catalog type "text".