scholarly journals Examining uncertainties in the linkage between global climate change and potential human health impacts in the western USA -- Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) as a case study

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.E. McKone ◽  
J.I. Daniels ◽  
M. Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Western Usa ◽  
Human Health Impacts ◽  
Potential Human Health

scholarly journals A case study of potential human health impacts from petroleum coke transfer facilities

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (11) ◽  
pp. 1061-1076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Dourson ◽  
Lyle R. Chinkin ◽  
David L. MacIntosh ◽  
Jennifer A. Finn ◽  
Kathleen W. Brown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Petroleum Coke ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Human Health Impacts ◽  
Potential Human Health

scholarly journals The human health impacts of global climate change

2020 ◽  
Vol 204 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Manqi Shu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Natural Ecosystem ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Human Health Impacts

At present, the global effects of climate change have already gone beyond economic globalization. Man affects climate, and climate affects man. As an important part of the natural environment on which human beings live, any change of climate will have an impact on the natural ecosystem, social economic system and human health. Today, in the information age, human health is considered to be a combination of ecological, socio-cultural, economic and institutional decisions, and climate change has had an extremely important impact on human health. Therefore, this paper summarizes the trends of global climate change and the potential threats to human health, and proposes expectations for future development.

Orchestrating the nation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barley Norton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
Party State

This chapter addresses the cultural politics, history and revival of Vietnamese court orchestras, which were first established at the beginning of the Nguyễn dynasty (1802–1945). Based on fieldwork in the city of Hue, it considers the decolonizing processes that have enabled Vietnamese court orchestras to take their place alongside other East Asian court orchestras as a display of national identity in the global community of nations. The metaphor of ‘orchestrating the nation’ is used to refer to the ways in which Vietnamese orchestras have been harnessed for sociopolitical ends in several historical periods. Court orchestras as heritage have recourse to a generic, precolonial past, yet they are not entirely uncoupled from local roots. Through a case-study of the revival of the Nam Giao Sacrifice, a ritual for ‘venerating heaven’, the chapter addresses the dynamics of interaction and exchange between staged performances of national heritage and local Buddhist and ancestor worship rituals. It argues that with growing concern about global climate change, the spiritual and ecological resonances of the Nam Giao Sacrifice have provided opportunities for the Party-state to reassert its position as the supreme guardian of the nation and its people.

Global climate change and human health

GeoJournal ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bentham Graham
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate

scholarly journals Catastrophic Health Impacts of Spiraling Climate Change: How Certain Can We Be About Their Magnitudes?

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaid Chalabi ◽  
Anna M. Foss
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Environmental Exposures ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Total Uncertainty ◽  
Human Health Impacts

Recently, there has been a strong interest in the climate emergency and the human health impacts of climate change. Although estimates have been quoted, the modeling methods used have either been simplistic or opaque, making it difficult for policy makers to have confidence in these estimates. Providing central estimates of health impacts, without any quantification of their uncertainty, is deficient because such an approach does not acknowledge the inherent uncertainty in extreme environmental exposures associated with spiraling climate change and related health impacts. Furthermore, presenting only the uncertainty bounds around central estimates, without information on how the uncertainty in each of the model parameters and assumptions contribute to the total uncertainty, is insufficient because this approach hides those parameters and assumptions which contribute most to the total uncertainty. We propose a framework for calculating the catastrophic human health impacts of spiraling climate change and the associated uncertainties. Our framework comprises three building blocks: (A) a climate model to simulate the environmental exposure extremes of spiraling climate change; (B) a health impact model which estimates the health burdens of the extremes of environmental exposures; and (C) an analytical mathematical method which characterizes the uncertainty in (A) and (B), propagates the uncertainty in-between and through these models, and attributes the proportion of uncertainty in the health outcomes to model assumptions and parameter values. Once applied, our framework can be of significant value to policy makers because it handles uncertainty transparently while taking into account the complex interactions between climate and human health.

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