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Apr 25, 2012 · People and the planet Executive summary. The Royal Society Science Policy Centre report 01a/12 Issued: April 2012 DES2470_2. ISBN: 978-0-85403-955-5. The Royal Society, 2012. Requests to reproduce all or part of this document should be submitted to: The Royal Society Science Policy Centre 6 – 9 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG.
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- Increasing levels of carbon dioxide and short-lived climate pollutants
- 1.2 Impacts of climate change drivers on health
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Climate change afects people’s health directly and indirectly. The magnitude of these impacts will increase over time and their severity will depend on the actions that are taken to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Drivers of climate change, such as fossil fuel combustion, also have negative impacts on human health, for example because air pol...
Actions taken to mitigate and adapt to climate change will benefit health in the near and longer term through multiple pathways. Promoting wider uptake of more sustainable and afordable dietary choices and reducing food waste can improve human health and protect the natural environment. Specific actions to reduce GHG emissions by using renewable ...
RISING TEMPERATURE RISING SEA LEVELS INCREASING EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS
Human health is also afected by many of the same activities that drive climate change, particularly within the world’s energy and food systems.
Research shows that there are many actions that have benefits both for the global and local environment and for human health. These range from efective adaptation strategies and the phasing out of fossil fuels, to specific sectoral policies such as for food systems, transport, urban development, and healthcare systems. These actions can be operatio...
Emergency preparedness and management Climate-informed health programmes Management of environmental determinants of health
Leadership and governance Building blocks of health systems
Vulnerability capacity and adaptation assessment Integrated risk monitoring and early warning Health climate research Climate resilient and sustainable technologies and infrastructure
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helpful in describing what science should and can be. In economic terms science serves the public good most profoundly through its creation of ‘public goods’. Such goods have no market value. They are the basis for most private goods. They include such things as free education, free roads, an honest police force and the rule
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development of sustainability mindsets and using science to do social good. After reviewing the context and pedagogical basis of this approach, th. paper presents a set of goals and guiding principles of STEM4SD Education.This paper reflects the current state of thinking and. iscussion on the topic, as shared among the involved international ...
etween technology and culture is no longer meaningful. All human activities, like housing, nutrition, transportation, work, leisure, even art an. imagination, become heavily enmeshed with technology. We “own” products of technology by a process of “cultural appropriation”, in which the use of technologies is le.
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May 18, 2013 · Environmental Science, Economics. The starting point for this special issue is the Royal Society’s report ’People and the planet’.1 In this introductory paper we recapitulate some of the points covered by the report, which is broadly concerned with the achievement of sustainable human development on a finite planet, and its main conclusions.
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Apr 25, 2012 · Summary. People and the planet 7 SUMMARY The 21st century is a critical period for people and the planet. The global population reached 7 billion during 2011 and the United Nations projections indicate that it will reach between 8 and 11 billion by 2050. Human impact on the Earth raises serious concerns,
