Book on Climate Change and Health

Hi, all

I would like to introduce one textbook which provides the discussion of global environmental change, including climate change, and public health. It gives us not only the fundamental background of fields, but also tips how to explore knowledge through the Internet. It links many useful websites and academic papers.

The book is more broadly discuss the global environmental change, it also has the section of climate change and public health. One of the editors is Dr. Paz Jonathan, an expert of climate change and health. I took his course and used the textbook last year at UW-Madison. If you are interested, I will bring it next time.

Title: Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective, Dr.
Joan L. Aron PhD (Editor), Jonathan A. Patz MD MPH, The Johns
Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (May 16, 2001)

Interdsciplinary Approach to Climate

Hi, all.

I have read the readings and felt that the way of writing is different. For example, Bassett (2000) points out the correlation between race and health conditions without a quantitative model in the paper. For an Economist, it might be a little bit awkward because the discipline requires the careful analysis of causality or correlation.

Thus, the following blog interests me a lot today. The weblog tells us the importance of interdicsiplinary approach to climate impact, especially public health in this entry. It points out two common difficulties in interdisciplinary research. One is the different "language" among different discpline. Second, it claims that scientists or researchers are influenced by hiddlen rule within thier discpline. I totally agree with those points. How to see issues is totally different from one discipline to other discipline.

http://climate.columbia.edu/blog/2009/02/16/interdisciplinary-work-big-challenge-but-not-impossible/

Anyway, the above blog might interest you because it advocate climate issues from Columbia.