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Climate change and the health of nations : famines, fevers, and the fate of populations / Tony J. McMichael with Alistair Woodward and Cameron Muir.

by McMichael, A. J. (Anthony J.)

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Oxford University Press, 2017.

Human beings -- Effect of climate on.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes -- Health aspects.

Climate and civilization.

9780190262952 (hc.)

xx, 370 pages : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.

Introduction -- A restless climate -- Climatic choreography of health and disease -- From Cambrian explosion to first farmers : how climate made us human -- Spread of farming, new diseases, and rising civilizations : mid-Holocene optimum -- Eurasian Bronze Age : unsettled climatic times -- Romans, Mayans, and Anasazi : the classical optimum to droughts in the Americas -- Little Ice Age : Europe, China, and beyond -- Weather extremes in modern times -- Humans throughout the Holocene -- Facing the future.

When we think of "climate change," we think of man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to its vicissitudes. Tony McMichael, an epidemiologist and a pioneer in the field of how human health relates to climate change, is a guide to this phenomenon. He presents an analysis of how human societies have been shaped by climate events. -- Provided by publisher.

Woodward, Alistair.

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