Weather, climate and health.
LOCATION
Periodicals Section
Central Library
South Kensington Campus
London
SW7 2AZ
UK
Weather and climate can strongly influence health, from the ambient environment to extreme weather events to long term climatic change. Our surrounding environment can affect us through our day-to-day activities, such as respiratory diseases associated with increasing urbanisation, or our general well-being within rural and urban ecosystems. Changing environmental conditions, in particular extreme events, can cause sudden changes. For example heat waves, which in the worst case can result in death. Long-term climatic conditions may lead to more extremes, or shifts in present spatial or temporal disease patterns. This event considers how weather, climate and health are inter-related, and presents some of the latest research on the topic.
This is an Aerosol Society Focus meeting held jointly with the Royal Meteorological Society and the Environmental Physics Group at the Institute of Physics. It is co-sponsored by Imperial College London and is part of the National meetings programme, open to all, from expert to enthusiast, for topical discussions on the latest advances in weather and climate. Non members are welcome to attend these meetings.
Weather and climate can strongly influence health, from the ambient environment to extreme weather events to long term climatic change. Our surrounding environment can affect us through our day-to-day activities, such as respiratory diseases associated with increasing urbanisation, or our general well-being within rural and urban ecosystems. Changing environmental conditions, in particular extreme events, can cause sudden changes. For example heat waves, which in the worst case can result in death. Long-term climatic conditions may lead to more extremes, or shifts in present spatial or temporal disease patterns. This event considers how weather, climate and health are inter-related, and presents some of the latest research on the topic.
This is an Aerosol Society Focus meeting held jointly with the Royal Meteorological Society and the Environmental Physics Group at the Institute of Physics. It is co-sponsored by Imperial College London and is part of the National meetings programme, open to all, from expert to enthusiast, for topical discussions on the latest advances in weather and climate. Non members are welcome to attend these meetings.