Martens, Pim

Resources in Climate and Health Research

Existing Compilations of Climate and Health Resources

Books

Institutions

Educational Resources

Reports

Conferences
Compilations of Journal Articles

Journal Titles

Reviews

Professional Societies

Related Fields

Existing Compilations of Climate and Health Resources

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESEN): Human Health and Global Environmental Change

WHO Regional Office for Europe Publications: A listing of WHO Europe publications

Climate and Health Resources created by Kevin Durand

Books

Books directly related to Climate and Health

1. Aguirre, AA, RS Ostfeld, GM Tabor, C House, MC Pearl. Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice. Oxford University Press: New York, 2002.

2. Aron, JL, JA Patz. Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, 2001.

3. Dept of Health. Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK, London. Department of Health, 2002.

4. Ebi KL et al. Adaptation to climate variability and change from a public health perspective. In: Ebi KL, Smith J, Burton I, eds. Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons Learned and New Directions, forthcoming.

5. Martens, Pim. Health and Climate Change: Modelling the Impacts of Global Warming and Ozone Depletion. Earthscan: London, 1998.

6. Martens, P (W.J.) and McMichael T (A.J). Environmental Change, Climate and Health: Issues and Research Methods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002.

7. McMichael, AJ, A Haines, R. Slooff, S Kovats. Climate Change and Human Health. WHO: Geneva, 1996.

8. McMichael, AJ, DH Campbell-Lendrum, CF Corvalán, KL Ebi, AK Githeko, JD Scheraga, A Woodward., Eds. Climate Change and Health: Risks and Responses. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2003.

9. McMichael, AJ, RE Woodruff, P Whetton, K Hennessy, N Nicholls, S Hales, A Woodward, T Kjellstrom. Human Health and Climate Change in Oceania: Risk Assessment 2002, Canberra, Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Health and Ageing, 2003.

10. Skinner, HCW, AR Berger, Geology and Health: Closing the Gap. Oxford University Press: New York, 2003.

Books peripherally related to Climate and Health

1. Eric Klinenberg. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of a Disaster. 2003.

2. May, JM. The Ecology of Human Disease. New York: MD Publications, 1958.

Institutions

Governmental

National Biological Information Infrastructure. Wildlife Disease Information Node (WDIN)

University Programs

Program On Health Effects Of Global Environmental Change, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Health

The Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard University Harvard Medical School

Non-governmental Organizations

World Health Organization: Regional Office for Europe, Climate Change and Health

Museums

Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Science, Global Warming: Facts and Our Future (does not focus on Health, but excellent nonetheless)

Educational Resources

1. ECOHEALTH101: A Curriculum and Content for middleschool class on Environmental Change and Health

2. The Global Environment & Public Health: Johns Hopkins University Graduate-level Course

Reports

1. Australian Medical Association. Climate Change Impacts Health Report: Effects of Dramatic CO₂ Emission Reductions. Australian Medical Association: September 2005.

2. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Human Health. Section 9 in Climate Change 2001: Impacts,Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Cambridge University Press: New York, 2001.

3. Kovats RS, Ebi K, Menne B. Methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change. WHO, Health Canada, UNEP, Copenhagen. (Health and Global Change Series, No. 1), 2003.

4. Kovats RS, B Menne, AJ McMichaels, C Corvalán, R Berotollini. Climate Change and Health: Impact and Adaption. WHO, 2000.

5. Koppe C, Kovats RS, Jendritzky G, Menne B. Heat-waves: risks and responses. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe (Health and Global Environmental Change Series. No. 3), 2004.

6. National Research Council. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Committee on Climate, Ecosystems, Infectious Diseases, and Human Health, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Academies Press, 2001.

7. Rosenzweig C & W Solecki, (Eds.) Climate Change and a Global City: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change—Metro East Coast. Report for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, National Assessment of the Potential consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the United States, Columbia Earth Institute, New York, 2001.

8. US Global Change Research Program. US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change: Health Sector Assessment. Also in Environmental Health Perspectives v109 (Supp.2), 2001.

9. WHO European Centre for Environment and Health. Monitoring impacts of climate change in Europe. Report of a WHO meeting, London, United Kingdom, 29-30 March 2001. Rome, WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, 2001.