Küresel Isınma ve İklim Değişikliği Nedeniyle Oluşan Doğal Felaketlerin İnsan Sağlığı Üzerindeki Etkileri
Natural Disasters Impacts on Human Health Which Caused by Global Warming and Climate Change
Author(s): Mehmet AkalınSubject(s): Health and medicine and law, Human Ecology, Environmental interactions
Published by: Hitit Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Keywords: Global Warming; Climate Change; Human Health; Flood; Drought; Typhoon; Cyclone;
Summary/Abstract: Scientific circles attempt to establish a consensus on climate change being a result of, increasing human activities since the 1970s. These efforts deadlock because of the complex and multi-dimensional relationship between climate and human activities. However climatologists reached a consensus that greenhouse gas emissions, caused by human activities, change world's climate will expeditiously in the long term. Global warming and climate change caused by Anthropogenic effects have devastating effects on people by sever natural disasters. Over the world large number of people are killed and injured or lose their health due to, natural disasters such as drought, floods, storms cyclone and typhoons. Moreover, natural disasters duo to global warming and climate change cause not only a number of new desease but also re-emergence of old fasion diseases like the plague. This study examines how natural disasters caused by global warming and climate change effect human health and what precautions should be taken in order to minimize the negative effects.
Journal: Hitit Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi
- Issue Year: 6/2013
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 29-43
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Turkish