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Australian Medical Students’ Association Global Health Essay Competition — Global climate change, geo‐engineering and human health
Author(s) -
Boyages Costa S
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja13.10572
Subject(s) - safeguarding , global health , sustainability , sustainable development , climate change , political science , human health , competition (biology) , global warming , economic growth , environmental planning , environmental resource management , environmental health , geography , health care , medicine , ecology , environmental science , economics , nursing , law , biology
Rio+20's proposed Sustainable Development Goals have the potential to redefine the course of international action on climate change. They recognise that environmental health is inextricably linked with human health, and that environmental sustainability is of paramount importance in safeguarding global health. Competition entrants were asked to discuss ways of making global health a central component of international sustainable development initiatives and environmental policy, using one or two concrete examples