Children's Health and the Peril of Climate Change

by Frederica Perera

Today, approximately two billion children breathe toxic air at levels exceeding standards set by the World Health Organization, causing immediate and long-term physical and mental health effects. Nearly every child around the world is at risk from at least one climate-related shock such as severe heat, flooding, drought, air pollution, forest fires, water scarcity, and displacement. Air pollution and climate change, largely driven by emissions from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197588166
• ISBN13: 9780197588161
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"