Flood Hazards and Health: Responding to Present and Future Risks - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844072169 ISBN 13: 9781844072163

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

With the tragedy of New Orleans still the focus of the world s media, this highly topical book combines rigorous analysis of the human health impacts of flooding with an appraisal of individual and societal response to those risks, and sets these findings in light of potential future increases in flood hazard as a result of climate change. Findings from epidemiological, environmental, social and institutional studies are brought together, with analysis rooted in an approach that emphasizes the developmental as well as environmental causes of flood risk and the socially differentiated nature of vulnerability and coping capacity. A detailed discussion of the global health impacts of floods and the nature of human response to the health risks posed is reinforced by new research evidence on specific health aspects of floods covering mental health, water and sanitation, local level responses and the responses of health systems.

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The book is thoroughly researched, highly informative, well written and at the same time concise and easy to read. --R. M. Mullner, University of Illinois at Chicago. CHOICE

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1844072169
• ISBN 13: 9781844072163
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Few Roger