Climate change futures: health, ecological and economic dimensions

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Contacts: Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H. Kathleen Frith, M.S. Center for Health <strong>and</strong> the Global Environment Harvard Medical School L<strong>and</strong>mark Center 401 Park Drive, Second Floor Boston, MA 02215 Tel: 617-384-8530 Email: chge@hms.harvard.edu Website: http://chge.med.harvard.edu Stephen K. Dishart Swiss Re Corporate Commmunications, US Tel: 212-317-5640 Email: stephen_dishart@swissre.com Website: http://www.swissre.com Charles McNeill, Ph.D. Brian Dawson, MSc Economics, MSc Environmental Management United Nations Development Programme Tel: 212-906-5960 Email: charles.mcneill@undp.org brian.dawson@undp.org Website: http://www.undp.org
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Climate Change Futures Health, Ecol
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Published by: The Center for Health
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PREAMBLE Hurricane Katrina 4 | PREA
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6 | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With this in
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8 | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Other non-lin
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THE CASE STUDIES IN BRIEF Floods in
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12 | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY THE CCF PROJ
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PART I: The Climate Context Today
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(see McCarthy et al. 2001). As glac
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Table 1.1 Extreme Weather Events an
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DISCONTINUITIES CLIVAR, Climate Var
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Figure 1.6 The Frequency of Weather
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Figure 1.7 Trends in Events, Losses
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• Thawing of permafrost (permanen
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CCF-II: GRADUAL WARMING WITH INCREA
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PART II: Case Studies
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND EMERGING INFECTI
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HEALTH IMPACTS Malaria is character
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Figure 2.5 Brazil N Brazil COLOMBIA
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estimates (over and above current a
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SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS Preventing
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262 deaths in 2003; 7,470 cases and
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98% of the two-year life cycle take
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The rise in minimum temperature res
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While the role of allergen exposure
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AIR QUALITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE ISSU
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EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS 1984 and 199
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HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS Heat
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Figure 2.20 Projected Excess Deaths
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THE ROLE OF CLIMATE Australia exper
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Service). Since 2002, severe floods
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Table 2.1 Economic Losses in Europe
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NATURAL AND MANAGED SYSTEMS adelgid
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created unstable conditions conduci
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Climate research has already identi
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LOSSES ASSOCIATED WITH 1993 HEAVY P
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Figure 2.28 Soybean Rust Introducti
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Table 2.3 Extreme Weather Events Ca
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General measures to reduce the impa
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Physiological stresses on reef orga
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There are many questions concerning
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• Terminating practices that dest
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ecome contaminated with viruses and
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In 2001 the IPCC fully recognized t
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