Climate and human health: synthesizing environmental complexity and uncertainty     

James D. Tamerius  Erika K. Wise  Christoper K. Uejio  Amy L. McCoy  Andrew C. Comrie 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》2007,21(5):601-613

Broad relationships between weather and human health have long been recognized, and there is currently a large body of research examining the impacts of climate change on human health. Much of the literature in this area examines climate–health relationships at global or regional levels, incorporating mostly generalized responses of pathogens and vectors to broad changes in climate. Far less research has been done to understand the direct and indirect climate-mediated processes involved at finer scales. Thus, some studies simplify the role of climate and may over- or under-estimate the potential response, while others have begun to highlight the subtle and complex role for climate that is contingent on other relevant processes occurring in natural and social environments. These fundamental processes need to be understood to determine the effects of past, current and future climate variation and change on human health. We summarize the principal climate variables and climate-dependent processes that are believed to impact human health across a representative set of diseases, along with key uncertainties in these relationships.  相似文献   

川滇震旦系灯影组葡萄石的沉积环境   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

曹仁关 《云南地质》2002,21(2):208-213

川镇地区震旦系地层发育，其中，灯影组含葡萄石。本文记述云南宜良九乡震旦系剖面以及川滇地区震旦系葡萄石，并探讨其沉积环境。  相似文献   

丘陵浅山地区风速幂指数及其在大气环境质量预测中的应用     

孙中党  郑银鹤 《河南气象》2001,(2):24-25

根据丘陵浅山地区8个测点低空风速实测资料进行风速廓线拟合，求得风速幂指数，将大气环境质量预测中的风速模式化，用来预测大气污染物的浓度分布。  相似文献   

The history of the development of procedures for the rapid assessment of environmental conditions to aid the urban regeneration process at London Docklands     

A. F. Howland 《Engineering Geology》2001,60(1-4):117-125

A process of urban regeneration of the former industrial dock area of east London by the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) recognised the importance of geotechnical and geoenvironmental information. A systematic programme of data collection was implemented and stored in a series of bespoke computer database systems and cartographic registers. These allowed retrieval and manipulation of the data to provide rapid site assessments. The understanding of the natural setting of the area was enhanced as a consequence of the collation exercise. The data stored included geotechnical and environmental information on soil and groundwater. The hydrogeological regime was modelled by computer to determine the consequences of development on groundwater movement. In addition, a cartographic register of historic land use was developed. This gave instant detail on the potential for contamination of a site and became a fundamental tool in the UK planning process of the area. The information from the separate systems was finally combined into a geographic information system.  相似文献   

青藏高原东北部古喀斯特过程与环境   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

崔之久  陈怀录 《地理学报》1996,51(5):408-417,T001

本文介绍了青藏高原东北部地区的古喀斯特现象，并对相关沉积进行了化学成、粘土矿物的Ｘ－射线衍射以及石英砂表面结构等气候代用指标的分析。分析结果一致，指示了温暖湿润的亚热带气候条件。重结晶方解石的裂变径迹测年结果表明，该地区古喀斯特发育于中中新世。  相似文献   

21世纪世界的资源和环境   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

张镜湖 《地球信息科学学报》1999,1(2):1-6

20世纪世界人口从15亿增长到60亿.而经济成长更为快速,自1950年至今已增长4倍.目前世界人口每年增加8000余万人,至2050年将达到90亿,世界经济是否能持续发展以提升或维持现有的生活水准,值得研讨.资源的消长和环境的变迁是具有决定性的两大重要议题.  相似文献   

环境影响评价中的效益—费用分析方法     

刁瑞田  邓新民 《成都信息工程学院学报》1993,(1)

效益-费用分析方法是环境影响评价中一种重要的方法。本文介绍了环境影响评价中的效益-费用分析方法的理论、程序及定量评价技术,概述了环境影响评价中效益-费用分析方法的理论及应用进展,并针对其存在问题,进行了探讨。  相似文献   

Excess in precipitation as a cause for settlement decline along the Israeli coastal plain during the third millennium BC     

Avraham Faust  Yosef Ashkenazy 《Quaternary Research》2007,68(1):37-44

Although the relations between climate and settlement are not straightforward, there is a general agreement that arid conditions are less favorable for human settlement in the semiarid Near East than humid conditions. Here we show that humid conditions resulted in the abandonment of settlements along the Israeli coastal plain. We first present archaeological evidence for a drastic decline in settlement along the Israeli coast during most of the third millennium BC (Early Bronze Age II-III). Then, based on archaeological and climatic evidence, we link this decline to an environmental change occurring at that time. We propose that increased precipitation intensified the already existing drainage problems and resulted in flooding, which led to the transformation of arable land into marshes and to the spread of diseases, gradually causing settlement decline and abandonment.  相似文献   

日本跨国公司对外直接投资区位研究   总被引：4，自引：2，他引：2  

郑京淑 《世界地理研究》1998,(2)

本文运用大量数据和资料对日本对外直接投资的地区结构和部门结构的变化、跨国公司对外直接投资的动机以及跨国公司海外生产基地的产品、市场结构特征进行详细分析,在此基础上总结了日本跨国公司对外直接投资的区位类型以及在不同区位类型下形成的企业内国际分工性质。  相似文献   

从对立统一观论人—地关系动力学     

徐公愉 《吉林地质》1998,17(1):43-47

人－地关系动力学将成为新工纪的地球科学的前沿学科。环境与发展已成为今日国际社会的共识。从对立统一观分析,人－地关系动力学具有整体性与局部性、缓变性与突发性、可再生性与不可再生性、因果性、不可逆性与避防性、线性变化与指数变化等特性。人类社会经济发展与资源、生态环境之间相互制约,要在现代科学技术的有效支持下,保持、发扬优化条件,减少、防止恶化条件,使人类社会经济保持健康的持续发展。  相似文献