Book contents
- Planetary Health
- Reviews
- Planetary Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Our Changing Planet
- 2 Climate Change
- 3 Pollution, Land Use, Biodiversity, and Health
- 4 Assessing Vulnerability and Risk in the Anthropocene Epoch
- 5 Adaptation and Resilience to Planetary Change
- 6 Addressing Conceptual, Knowledge, and Implementation Challenges
- 7 Health in the Sustainable Development Goals
- 8 Transforming Energy and Industry: Towards a Net-Zero Circular Economy for Health
- 9 Sustaining Urban Health in the Anthropocene Epoch
- 10 Food Systems and Land Use
- 11 The Role of Health Professionals in Fostering Planetary Health
- 12 Sustaining Planetary Health in the Anthropocene
- Index
- References
4 - Assessing Vulnerability and Risk in the Anthropocene Epoch
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2021
- Planetary Health
- Reviews
- Planetary Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Our Changing Planet
- 2 Climate Change
- 3 Pollution, Land Use, Biodiversity, and Health
- 4 Assessing Vulnerability and Risk in the Anthropocene Epoch
- 5 Adaptation and Resilience to Planetary Change
- 6 Addressing Conceptual, Knowledge, and Implementation Challenges
- 7 Health in the Sustainable Development Goals
- 8 Transforming Energy and Industry: Towards a Net-Zero Circular Economy for Health
- 9 Sustaining Urban Health in the Anthropocene Epoch
- 10 Food Systems and Land Use
- 11 The Role of Health Professionals in Fostering Planetary Health
- 12 Sustaining Planetary Health in the Anthropocene
- Index
- References
Summary
Throughout human history, communities and individuals have adapted more or less successfully to changes in their local environments. The Anthropocene Epoch poses adaptation challenges that are new and different, both quantitatively and qualitatively, from those experienced during human history, because of both the scale and pace of the changes and the sheer numbers of humans who will need to adapt. At the same time, humanity has access – albeit inequitably – to the fruits of scientific and technological progress unavailable to previous generations, which facilitate at least some successful adaptation.
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- Planetary HealthSafeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene, pp. 125 - 147Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021