Ecosystem change and public health : a global perspective / edited by Joan L. Aron and Jonathan A. Patz.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

xxiii, 480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Information on issues of global change / Erika G. Feulner -- Epidemiological study designs / Alfred A. Buck and Joan L. Aron -- Geographic information systems / Joan L. Aron and Gregory E. Glass -- The science/policy interface / Jonathan M. Samet -- Integrated assessment / Joan L. Aron , J. Hugh Ellis, and Benjamin F. Hobbs -- Human populations in the shared environment / Dennis C. Pirages, Paul J. Runci, and Robert H. Sprinkle -- The changing chemistry of Earth's atmosphere / Steven A. Lloyd -- An earth science perspective on global change / George W. Fisher -- Water resources management / Nicolaas J. P. M. de Groot -- Ecology and infectious disease / Mark L. Wilson -- Cholera and global ecosystems / Anwar Huq, R. Bradley Sack, and Rita R. Colwell -- Malaria and global ecosystem change / Joan L. Aron, Clive J. Shiff, and Alfred A. Buck -- Global climate change and air pollution: interactions and their effects on human health / Jonathan A. Patz and John M. Balbus -- Too little, too much: how the quantity of water affects human health / Les Roberts, Ulisses E. C. Confalonieri, and Joan L. Aron -- Stimulating inquiry: textbooks and information literacy in the internet environment / Erika G. Feulner -- The resource center / Erika G. Feulner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.