MISCELLANEOUS
UM1 - Radioecology and Environmental Radioactivity
The session aims to highlight many aspects of environmental radioactivity. Contributions dealing with naturally occurring nuclides in all divisions of litosphere, biosphere and troposphere or with those created and released by man through nuclear weapons manufacture and testing, energy production, fuel-cycle technology, etc. are welcomed.
Conveners: Hiroshi Yasuda
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UM2 - Global Environmental Change Impacting Human Health
The session aims to highlight impacts of changes in Global Environment on human health. Such impacts would take place even if the environmental changes occur due to natural or anthropogenic causes. Natural causes include change in climatic pattern due to global warming, rise in sea level, increased number of GeoHazards such as floods, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides etc. Anthropogenic causes would include deforestation, land degradation, desertification, wetland damage, etc.
Appreciation of the scale or magnitude of these impacts and their influences on human health requires a new perspective which focuses on ecosystems and on the recognition that the foundations of long-term good health of human population rely primarily on the continued stability and functioning of the biosphere's life-supporting systems, mainly land and water. The contributions to this Session would lead to appreciation of the complexity of the systems upon which we depend for wellbeing.
Conveners: Shrikant D. Limaye
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UM3 - General Topics
Contributions on any topic of interest to medical geology are welcome in this session. If your planned contribution does not“fit” in a thematic session or proposed symposium, this is the place to submit it. The general session will provide a
potpourri of advanced Medical Geology research that will appeal to a wide cross section of GEOMED2011 attendees.
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