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Your Environment. Your Health.

Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal The natural environment as an object of public health law: Addressing health outcomes of climate change through intersections with environmental and agricultural law

Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal

Author(s):
Krueger J, Lawton B
Year:
2020
Journal:
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 48 (4): 664-680
Abstract:

The power to change the natural environment has received relatively little attention in public health law, yet is a core concern within environmental and agricultural law. Examples from environmental and agricultural law may inform efforts to change the natural environment in order to reduce the health impacts of climate change. Public health lawyers who attend to the natural environment may succeed in elevating health concerns within the environmental and agricultural law spheres, while gaining new tools for their public health law toolbox.

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Resource Description

Exposure What is this?

weather or climate related pathway by which climate change affects health

    General Exposure
Geographic Location What is this?

resource focuses on specific location

    United States
Health Impact What is this?

specification of health effect or disease related to climate change exposure

    General Health Impact
Resource Type What is this?

format or standard characteristic of resource

    Review Article
Special Topic What is this?

related topics that intersect with those captured in other filters

    Adaptation, Policy
    • Adaptation, Policy: Intervention, Resilience
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