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Ecosystem Approaches to Community Health and Wellbeing: Towards an Integrated Australian Governance Framework in Response to Global Environmental Change

Authors: Jonathan Kingsley, Sebastian Thomas

Published in: EcoHealth | Issue 2/2017

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Delay is a luxury that Australia… can no longer afford… the world is rapidly approaching points at which high risks of dangerous climate change are no longer avoidable… Our location makes us already a hot and dry country. We live in a region of developing countries, which are in a weaker position to adapt to climate change than wealthy countries, and their problems will become our[s] (Garnaut 2008a, p. 1).

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Title: Ecosystem Approaches to Community Health and Wellbeing: Towards an Integrated Australian Governance Framework in Response to Global Environmental Change
Authors: Jonathan Kingsley
Sebastian Thomas
Publication date: 01-06-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: EcoHealth / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 1612-9202
Electronic ISSN: 1612-9210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-016-1193-x

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