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Hoboken : Wiley, 2021

xi, 382 stran : ilustrace, portréty ; 26 cm

ISBN 978-1-119-56954-1 (brožováno)

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Preface xi // 1 Introduction: public health, EcoHealth, planetary health, and you 1 // 1.1 Connections 1 // 1.2 Is this a dangerous book? 1 // 1.3 Three alternative approaches to health and the environment 5 // 1.3.1 EcoHealth 6 // 1.3.2 One Health 8 // 1.3.3 Planetary health 10 // 1.4 Global warming or climate change? 12 // 1.5 Depth of the human footprint 13 // 1.6 Introducing ecocrises interactions and health 15 // 1.7 Thresholds in the environment 18 // 1.8 Sustainability of human life on Earth 18 // 1.9 How did things get this bad? 20 // 1.10 Age of the Anthropocene 21 // 1.11 The hottest year on record 23 // 1.12 Organization of this book 23 References 24 // Part 1 Impact on ecosystems 31 // 2 Intricacies of ecosystems 33 // 2.1 The nature of nature and the pathway to understanding 33 // 2.2 Developing a historic understanding of ecology and ecosystems 33 // 2.2.1 Ancient Greece 33 // 2.2.2 Indigenous environmental knowledge 36 // 2.3 Modem ecology 41 // 2.3.1 Ecosystems 42 // 2.3.2 Biodiversity and the multitude of species 45 // 2.3.3 Regional and planet-wide natural interconnecting structures 53 // 2.3.4 Human-dominated ecosystems 54 // 2.3.5 Human ecology 55 References 58 // vili // Contents // 3 The social and technological making of environmental crises 63 // 3.1 Earth is now a different place 63 // 3.2 The longue durée and the rise and development of capitalism 63 // 3.2.1 Toward environment crises: critical turning points in human history 64 // 3.3 Environmental neoliberalism and the polluting elites 76 // 3.4 The Anthropocene or the Capitolocene? 81 // 3.5 The future of Eaarth 83 References 83 // 4 Engaging catastrophe 90 // 4.1 Introduction to a dismal theme 90 // 4.2 Prepping for doomsday 91 // 4.3 The record of past radical environmental change 94 // 4.3.1 Planetary change and mass extinction 94 // 4.3.2 The sixth mass extinction? 97 //

4.3.3 Planetary change in the archeological record 101 // 4.4 Popular concern with the environment 104 // 4.4.1 History of the environmental movement 105 // 4.4.2 Environmental crisis and the media 111 References 112 // 5 A home in peril: major contemporary environmental crises 119 // 5.1 Case studies in contemporary environmental crises 119 // 5.2 Deforestation 119 // 5.3 Acidification of the oceans 122 // 5.4 Eutrophication of estuarine and coastal waters 125 // 5.5 Depletion of the oceans 132 // 5.6 Pollution of waters 137 // 5.7 Oil spills 141 // 5.8 Desertification 144 // 5.9 Concluding remarks 145 References 146 // 6 The threat of ecocrises interaction 157 // 6.1 Compounded perturbations and ecological surprises 157 // 6.2 Climate change and polluted Superfund sites 158 // 6.3 Global toxic sites and climate change 164 // 6.3.1 Camp Century, Greenland 167 // 6.4 The ecocrises of unfettered mining 169 // 6.5 Cement, asbestos, and climate change 171 // 6.6 The climate change-nuclear ecocrisis nexus 177 // 6.6.1 Radiation and health 178 // 6.6.2 Climate change and nuclear facilities 180 // 6.7 Concluding remarks 183 References 184 // Part 2 Environmental crisis 193 // 7 Encountering degrading environments 195 // 7.1 Complexities of the environment-health nexus 195 // 7.2 Ecosystem distress syndrome 199 // 7.3 Case studies of degraded environments 201 // 7.3.1 Degrading Arctic permafrost 201 // 7.3.2 Drugged aquatic environments 208 // 7.4 Case studies of fragmented environments 209 // 7.4.1 Fragmenting sky islands 212 // 7.4.2 Fragmenting forests 213 // 7.4.3 Fragmenting grasslands 215 // 7.5 The dilemma of simplified environments 216 // 7.6 Fragmented environments, ticks, and human health 217 // 7.7 Solastalgia: distress linked to environmental change 219 // References 220 // 8 Climate change, crisis enhancement 229 // 8.1 Consensus on climate change 229 //

8.2 Driving climate change 230 // 8.3 How serious is climate change? 232 // 8.4 Drought and heatwaves 236 // 8.5 Melting land ice and tundra 241 // 8.6 Coastal flooding 245 // 8.7 The polar vortex 248 // 8.8 Hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, and tropical storms 249 // 8.9 Infectious diseases 250 // 8.10 Food loss to heat and insect pests 253 // References 262 // 9 Business as deadly usual: resisting environmental science 272 // 9.1 A consistent pattern of climate change denial 272 // 9.2 A time of questioning environmental science 274 // 9.3 Skirting accountability: polluters, innocence, and the victim slot 278 // 9.4 Fighting for the "right” to pollute 279 // 9.5 Deadly business: Big Energy and the denial of climate change 282 // 9.5.1 Phase I: claiming global warming is a hoax 284 // 9.5.2 Phase II: admitting global warming is real, denying its urgency 290 // 9.5.3 Phase III: arguing we’re all in it together 292 // 9.6 The politics of climate change denial 294 // 9.7 The institutions of the climate change denial machine 295 // 9.8 Taking climate change deniers to court 298 // 9.9 Fundamentalist denial 299 References 300 // Part 3 Human health risks with changing environment 309 // 10 Crossing boundaries and thresholds 311 // 10.1 Are there biophysical boundaries for humanity? 311 // 10.2 Key biogeochemical and biophysical Earth system processes 311 // 10.3 Exploring planetary boundaries 313 // 10.3.1 Global environmental governance and planetary boundaries 314 // 10.3.2 Modification of values used to define specific planetary boundary dimensions 316 // 10.3.3 Sustainable development goals and planetary boundaries 317 // 10.3.4 Downscaling planetary-level to subglobal boundaries 320 // 10.4 Environmental tipping points 325 References 332 // 11 Time for change? Toward sustainability, toward life 337 // 11.1 Why go to school? 337 //

11.2 Social movements 340 // 11.2.1 The local level 341 // 11.2.2 The regional/national level 346 // 11.2.3 The global level 354 // 11.3 Stepping toward change 359 // 11.4 Toward changing the system: addressing ultimate causes 362 // 11.5 The solidarity economy 363 // 11.6 Stateless democracy 365 // 11.7 Ecosocialism 367 References 368 // Index 376