Frontiers 2017: Emerging Environmental Issues of Concern

United Nations Environment Programme. 12/05/2017 This 84-page annual report identifies the most novel environmental challenges facing the planet. The six issues include Antimicrobial Resistance: Investigating the Environmental Dimension, which discusses one of the biggest global public health concerns of the 21st century; and Environmental Displacement: Human Mobility in the Anthropocene, which discusses how the interlacing trends of climate change, population growth, rising consumption, and environmental degradation are likely to lead to the displacement and migration of even greater numbers of people in the future. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - December 7, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news