Environmental changes and human health: World Resources Report 1998-99

Focuses on the critical issue of environmental change and human health. Drawing on the latest scientific data, report explores how environmental conditions contribute to the current burden of death and disease around the world and how that may change over the coming decades. Looks at several critical trends that are changing the physical environment such as the intensification of agriculture, industrialization, and rising energy use, and that have the potential to influence human health.

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Fictitious commodification and agrarian change: Indigenous peoples and land markets in Highland Ecuador

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For the community, by the community: building resilience through infrastructure in rural India

Political ecology and differential vulnerabilities to droughts among livestock farmers in South Africa: A case study of Mpakeni community