Climate change and urban health : the case of Hong Kong as a subtropical city /
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Corporate Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
|
| Series: | Routledge studies in environment and health.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year) |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- 2. Principles of health, public health, and climate change
- 3. Climate change impact on disease and health
- 4. Climate change and disasters
- 5. Research Methodology I: climate and health outcome modelling / Emily Ying Yang Chan
- 6. Research Methodology II: climate and human behavioural model
- 7. case of Hong Kong
- 8. Health impact of extreme temperature and heat island effect on mortality
- 9. Temperature impact on general and communicable disease-related morbidities
- 10. Temperature and non-communicable disease hospitalisation
- 11. Climate Change Behavioural Adaptation I: help-seeking and information-seeking behaviours under extreme climate events
- 12. Climate Change Behavioural Adaptation II: bottom-up approach of community risk perception and self-help behaviours under extreme climate events
- 13. Climate change mitigation, policies, research gaps, and next steps
- 14. Conclusion.