[Discussion] ECOHEALTH: CLIMATE CHANGE, HEALTH C ONSEQUENCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DETERIORATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES WAR - CALL FOR PAPER S AND INVITATION FOR PARTICIPATION”

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

ECOHEALTH: CLIMATE CHANGE, HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL 
DETERIORATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES WAR - CALL FOR PAPERS AND 
INVITATION FOR PARTICIPATION”
World climate changes are significant factors influencing the health of 
individuals and communities. Originally, a natural and slow process, as 
traced by the methods of analysis of paleoclimatology, it has been in 
progress since the beginning of the solar system. Anthropogenic world 
climate change, however, is a rather recent phenomena, experienced in 
the last decades. It is largely the result of the accumulation of 
greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere from fossil fuel utilization, 
and leading to serious consequences like global warming and alarming 
rises in sea levels, which bring real risks of droughts and floods that 
have among other consequences, potentially very serious impact on 
agriculture. Acid rain is another serious consequence, damaging human, 
animal and plant life, eroding buildings and corroding metal objects. 
Additional environmental problems related to fossil fuel use includes 
pollution of seas by oil spills from tankers and pollution of 
underground water resources by oil leaks from storage tanks and 
pipelines. What do history and archeology tell us about climate changes? 
How do different cultures in the world today experience world climate 
changes? What are their perceptions and methods of coping? What is the 
state of international law covering compensation for health loss after 
accidents such as the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident? Public awareness 
concerning eco-health policies. Natural disaster related to eco-health 
hazards. Environmental risk assessment, risk communication and risk 
management. Industrial catastrophes and eco-health. Eco-health 
consequences of war and warfare. Controversies over the Kyoto 
Convention. This session also aims to look at ongoing national and 
international action plans against anthropogenic climate change, as well 
as various climate models, energy technologies, policies, standards and 
protocols that are being considered. The session will also try to make a 
critical evaluation of clean and renewable energy utilization, and the 
hydrogen energy system advocated as the best solutions for returning to 
normal climate conditions for sustainable development. Social 
consequences of the collapse of buildings and other man-made accidents 
will also be examined. Please find updated information as regards the 
meeting at the IFSSH website http://www.ifssh.net.
The International Forum for Social Sciences and Health (IFSSH) welcomes 
applications from scholars, administrators, researchers, interested 
parties, international agencies, national and international research 
institutions and students for participation in the 2005 World Congress 
“HEALTH CHALLENGES OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM”. The 2005 World Congress 
aims to realize a universal platform for reflections and forward-looking 
discussions in all important areas that fall under the health social 
science agenda. The world congress will host workshop sessions under the 
following themes: Accidents and disabilities; Adolescent health; 
Bioethics; Bioterror and weapons of mass destruction; Child health, 
development and child rights; Health consequences of war; Communicating 
health knowledge and behavior; Controversies of diet and nutrition; 
Developing economies, migration and emerging health issues; Ecohealth: 
climate change, health consequences of environmental deterioration and 
environmental policies; Ethnobotany and healing; Giving birth: new 
meanings, new statistics; Health and disease in world myths, scripts and 
literature; Health clubs and the new aesthetics of health; Health 
equity; Health social science research methodology; Health sector reform 
and health insurance; Health, medicine and colonialism; Human rights, 
HIV/AIDS and the new epidemics; Infectious diseases; Issues in rural 
health and disease; Life styles; Living with pain; Local traditions of 
healing and shamans; New challenges: smoking, addictions and eating 
disorders; Politics of pharmacueticals; Redefining old age; Reproductive 
health; Social history of health and disease; Social science education 
for health sciences; Sociology of dental health; Suicides and cross 
cultural issues in mental health; The economics of well being; The 
future of hospitals and patient care; The psychology of violence; 
Violence as a public health issue; and Social aspects and prevention of 
world blindness. Please find updated information as regards the meeting 
at the IFSSH website http://www.ifssh.net. We invite you to join this 
interdisciplinary gathering of the experiences and perspectives of 
social scientists and health specialists for a crucial assessment of the 
human condition at the onset of the new millennium.
Prof. Dr. Akile Gürsoy
IFSSH Secretary General
Head, Department of Anthropology
Yeditepe University
Congress Correspondence:
2005 IFSSH Congress Center
Department of Anthropology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Yeditepe University
Kay?s,dag(?,34755 Istanbul TÜRKI.YE
Tel: (+ 90) 216-578 07 27)
Fax: (+ 90) 216-578 08 99)
E-mail: ifssh.2005@yeditepe.edu.tr
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