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  A review of frameworks for developing environmental health indicator for climate change and health

  International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 2011

  Climate change is affecting human health and wellbeing, particularly in the emergence and spread of diseases. There has been an increasing interest to identify and develop specific indicators to monitor human health vulnerability to direct and indirect climate change impacts and detect early health impacts for targeted interventions.
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  Predicting the impact of home-based enterprises on health and the biophysical environment: observations from two South African settlements

  Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa, 2005

  As the nature and growth of home-based enterprises (HBEs) impact on the lives and health of the households directly involved, so also do the service, production and retail activities of the households affect the biophysical environment. This paper examines how home-based enterprise processes could potentially impact on the health of poor urban dwellers and on the biophysical environment.
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  Impacts of greenhouse and local gases mitigation options on air pollution in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area: valuation of human health effects

  Centro de Estudios Macroeconomicos de Argentina, 2002

  This paper aims to understand the possible health-related benefits of reducing and containing greenhouse and local gases (GHG) emissions in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The study extrapolates three scenarios into the year 2012, and analyses trends in health-related expenditure that emerge as a result of long-term exposure to GHG emissions.
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  Environmental management for malaria control in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2004

  This document from Health, Nutrition and Population division, World Bank, presents options to minimise malaria risks associated with infrastructure development projects in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. It also aims to raise awareness of opportunities to design, construct and operate infrastructure as a sustainable means of reducing malaria transmission risks.
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  Oil: a life cycle analysis of it health and environmental impacts

  Harvard Medical School, 2002

  This report attempts to provide a framework for evaluating the true costs of our use of oil.
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  The role of livestock in mitigating land degredation, poverty and child malnutrition in mixed farming systems: the case of coffee-growing midlands of Sidama - Ethiopia

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1998

  This study illustrates the role played by livestock in alleviating land degradation, poverty and the resulting child malnutrition in integrated farming systems in Ethiopia.
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  Economic impacts of climate change in South Africa: a preliminary analysis of unmitigated damage costs

  Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2002

  What are the predicted economic impacts of climate change in South Africa? This paper attempts to provide preliminary estimates based on secondary data from the findings of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Study for the South African Country Study on Climate Change (1999).
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  Arsenic crisis today: strategy for tomorrow

  Environment and Sustainable Development Programme, United Nations University, 2001

  This document presents ideas and concepts for ways to cope with the arsenic crisis first highlighted by the presence of arsenic in groundwater extracted from the alluvial aquifer underlying West Bengal and Bangladesh. The focus is on Bangladesh, but the findings may be applied to any other part of the world.