Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them
by Mark Jerome Walters
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"In Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, Mark Jerome Walters tells the human stories behind these diseases and brilliantly shows the connections between new epidemics and human changes to the natural environment. "So closely are new epidemics linked to ecological change," Walters argues, "they might rightfully be called ecodemics." Global climate change, deforestation, heavily industrialized agriculture, and wildlife decimation, not to mention global travel and commerce, he shows, have all contributed to the emergence and spread of these diseases. We are not simply victims of new illnesses; we are helping to cause or exacerbate them through changes we've made to the natural world."--BOOK JACKET.
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Epidemiology, Environmental health, Popular works, Human ecology| Edition | Availability |
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Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them
2012, Island Press
in English
1597266264 9781597266260
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Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them
August 31, 2004, Island Press
Paperback
in English
- 1 edition
1559637145 9781559637145
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Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them
September 10, 2003, Island Press
Hardcover
in English
- 1 edition
155963992X 9781559639927
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"I first learned of the strange new disease in the city while reading the New York Times."
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