Climate Change and Health (eBook)

Walter Leal Filho is a professor at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where he leads a set of international projects on matters related to sustainable development and climate change.Fátima Alves, Phd in Sociology of Health, is Professor at Social Sciences an Management Department, Universidade Aberta and senior Researcher at CEMRI, UAb and at CEF, Coimbra University. Coordinates the extension of the Centre for Functional Ecology of Coimbra University. Ulisses M Azeiteiro is a Professor at the Universidade Aberta and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Functional Ecology of Coimbra University where he is the Coordinator of the Group History of Science, Scientific Communication and Dissemination . In the area of Sustainability he is member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education and he published several books in Sustainability Science.

Preface.- Part I: Human Health and Climate Change.- Part II: Climate Change and Infectious Diseases.- Part III: Climate Change and Health: Education, Training and Governance.- Part IV: Climate Change and Health Across Regions.