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Climate change and urban health : the case of Hong Kong as a subtropical city /

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Main Authors: Chan, Emily Ying Yang (Author)
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon :
Publication Dates: 2019.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Routledge studies in environment and health
Subjects:
Medical climatology > China > Hong Kong.
Climatic changes > Health aspects > China > Hong Kong.
Human beings > Effect of climate on > China > Hong Kong.
Hong Kong (China) > Climate.
Item Description: "Earthscan from Routledge"--Title page.
Carrier Form: xxiii, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781138385139
1138385131
Index Number: RA793
CLC: R188.8
Call Number: R188.8/C454
Contents: Health impact of climate change : an overview -- Principles of health, public health and climate change -- Climate change impact on disease and health -- Climate change and disasters -- Research methodology I : climate and health outcome modelling -- Research methodology II : climate and human behavioural model -- The case of Hong Kong -- Health impact of extreme temperature and heat island effect on mortality -- Temperature impact on general and communicable disease-related morbidities -- Temperature and non-communicable disease hospitalisation -- Climate change behavioural adaptation I : help-seeking and information-seeking behaviours under extreme climate events -- Climate change behavioural adaptation II : bottom-up approach of community risk perception and self-help behaviours under extreme climate events -- Climate change mitigation, policies, research gaps and next steps.

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