Colin Butler

Inter-annual rainfall variations and suicide in New South Wales, Australia, 1964-2001 (2006)

Nichols, Neville, Butler, Colin, Hanigan, Ivan

The suicide rate in New South Wales is shown to be related to annual precipitation, supporting a widespread and long-held assumption that drought in Australia increases the likelihood of suicide. The...

Linking future ecosystem services and future human well-being (2006)

Butler, Colin, Olouch-Kosura, Willis

Ecosystem services are necessary, yet not sufficient for human well-being (however defined). Insufficient access to the ecosystem provisioning service of food is a particularly important factor in...

Enviromental health (2006)

Butler, Colin, McMichael, Anthony

Edited by two leading public health physicians with chapters written by 48 experts in various aspects of social injustice, this book addresses social injustice and its relationship to public health....

Action on climate change : the health risks of procrastinating (2006)

Woodruff, Rosalie E., McMichael, Tony, Butler, Colin, Hales, Simon

Objective: The world's climate will continue to change because of human influence. This is expected to affect health, mostly adversely. We need to compare the projected health effects in Australia...

Emerging health issues: the widening challenge for population health promotion (2006)

McMichael, Anthony, Butler, Colin

The spectrum of tasks for health promotion has widened since the Ottawa Charter was signed. In 1986, infectious diseases still seemed in retreat, the potential extent of HIV/AIDS was unrecognized,...

Human carrying capacity and human health (2006)

Butler, Colin

The silence around overpopulation prevents the global health community from making the necessary link between the planner's limited ability to support its people and health and development crises....

Climate change and human health: what can GPs do? (2006)

Blashki, Grant, Butler, Colin, Brown, Sue

In recent months articles in the most respected peer reviewed medical journals in Australia, the USA and Britain have called for urgent action to reduce climate change.1–4 The chief scientist...

Enviromental health (2006)

Butler, Colin, McMichael, Anthony

Edited by two leading public health physicians with chapters written by 48 experts in various aspects of social injustice, this book addresses social injustice and its relationship to public health....

Human carrying capacity and human health (2006)

Butler, Colin

The silence around overpopulation prevents the global health community from making the necessary link between the planner's limited ability to support its people and health and development crises....

Linking future ecosystem services and future human well-being (2006)

Butler, Colin, Olouch-Kosura, Willis

Ecosystem services are necessary, yet not sufficient for human well-being (however defined). Insufficient access to the ecosystem provisioning service of food is a particularly important factor in...

Emerging health issues: the widening challenge for population health promotion (2006)

McMichael, Anthony, Butler, Colin

The spectrum of tasks for health promotion has widened since the Ottawa Charter was signed. In 1986, infectious diseases still seemed in retreat, the potential extent of HIV/AIDS was unrecognized,...

Climate change and human health: what can GPs do? (2006)

Blashki, Grant, Butler, Colin, Brown, Sue

In recent months articles in the most respected peer reviewed medical journals in Australia, the USA and Britain have called for urgent action to reduce climate change.1–4 The chief scientist...

Action on climate change : the health risks of procrastinating (2006)

Woodruff, Rosalie E., McMichael, Tony, Butler, Colin, Hales, Simon

Objective: The world's climate will continue to change because of human influence. This is expected to affect health, mostly adversely. We need to compare the projected health effects in Australia...

Inter-annual rainfall variations and suicide in New South Wales, Australia, 1964-2001 (2006)

Nichols, Neville, Butler, Colin, Hanigan, Ivan

The suicide rate in New South Wales is shown to be related to annual precipitation, supporting a widespread and long-held assumption that drought in Australia increases the likelihood of suicide. The...

Routine use of antibiotics to promote animal growth does little to benefit protein undernutrition in the developing world (2005)

Collignon, Peter, Braam, Peter, Butler, Colin

Some persons argue that the routine addition of antibiotics to animal feed will help alleviate protein undernutrition in developing countries by increasing meat production. In contrast, we estimate...

Human health, well-being and global ecological scenarios (2005)

Butler, Colin, Corvalan, Carlos F., Koren, Hillel S.

This article categorizes four kinds of adverse effects to human health caused by ecosystem change: direct, mediated, modulated, and systems failure. The effects are categorized on their scale,...

Ecosystems and human well-being : health synthesis (2005)

Corvalan, Carlos, Hales, Simon, McMichael, Anthony, Butler, Colin, Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid, Confalonieri, Ulisses, ...

This report synthesizes the findings from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment's (MA) global and sub-global assessments of how ecosystem changes do, or could, affect human health and well-being. Main...

Human health, well-being and global ecological scenarios (2005)

Butler, Colin, Corvalan, Carlos F., Koren, Hillel S.

This article categorizes four kinds of adverse effects to human health caused by ecosystem change: direct, mediated, modulated, and systems failure. The effects are categorized on their scale,...

The routine use of antibiotics to promote animal growth does little to benefit protein undernutrition in the developing world (2005)

Collignon, Peter, Braam, Peter, Butler, Colin

Some persons argue that the routine addition of antibiotics to animal feed will help alleviate protein undernutrition in developing countries by increasing meat production. In contrast, we estimate...

Ecosystems and human well-being : health synthesis (2005)

Corvalan, Carlos, Hales, Simon, McMichael, Anthony, Butler, Colin, Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid, Confalonieri, Ulisses, ...

This report synthesizes the findings from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment's (MA) global and sub-global assessments of how ecosystem changes do, or could, affect human health and well-being. Main...

Unhealthy landscapes: policy recommendations on land use change and infectious disease emergence (2004)

Patz, Jonathan A., Daszak, Peter, Tabor, Gary M., Aguirre, Alonso A., Pearl, Mary, Epstein, Jon, ...

Anthropogenic land use changes drive a range of infectious disease outbreaks and emergence events and modify the transmission of endemic infections. These drivers include agricultural encroachment,...

Human carrying capacity and human health (2004)

Butler, Colin

The issue of human overpopulation has fallen out of favor among most contemporary demographers, economists, and epidemiologists. Discussing population control has become a taboo topic. Yet, this...

Human carrying capacity and human health (2004)

Butler, Colin

The issue of human overpopulation has fallen out of favor among most contemporary demographers, economists, and epidemiologists. Discussing population control has become a taboo topic. Yet, this...

Unhealthy landscapes: policy recommendations on land use change and infectious disease emergence (2004)

Patz, Jonathan A., Daszak, Peter, Tabor, Gary M., Aguirre, Alonso A., Pearl, Mary, Epstein, Jon, ...

Anthropogenic land use changes drive a range of infectious disease outbreaks and emergence events and modify the transmission of endemic infections. These drivers include agricultural encroachment,...

Ecosystems and human well-being (2003)

Butler, Colin, Chambers, Robert, Chopra, Kanchan, Dasgupta, Partha, Duraiappah, Anantha Kumar, Kumar, Pushpam, ...

■ Human well-being has several key components: the basic material needs for a good life, freedom and choice, health, good social relations, and personal security. Well-being exists on a continuum...

Environment always matters (2003)

Butler, Colin

Superficially, the high human populations of prosperous, well-fed city-states such as Singapore and Hong Kong might appear to support the view that high concentrations of human dynamism and...

Ecosystems and human well-being (2003)

Butler, Colin, Chambers, Robert, Chopra, Kanchan, Dasgupta, Partha, Duraiappah, Anantha Kumar, Kumar, Pushpam, ...

■ Human well-being has several key components: the basic material needs for a good life, freedom and choice, health, good social relations, and personal security. Well-being exists on a continuum...

The environment always matters (2003)

Butler, Colin

Superficially, the high human populations of prosperous, well-fed city-states such as Singapore and Hong Kong might appear to support the view that high concentrations of human dynamism and...

New visions for addressing sustainability (2003)

McMichael, A. J., Butler, Colin, Folke, Carl

Attaining sustainability will require concerted interactive efforts among disciplines, many of which have not yet recognized, and internalized, the relevance of environmental issues to their main...

Global change and health - the good, the bad, and the evidence (2002)

Lee, Kelly, McMichael, Tony, Butler, Colin, Ahern, Mike, Bradley, David

Debates over the merits and demerits of globalisation for health are increasingly polarised. Conclusions range from globalisation being essentially positive for health, albeit with a need to smooth...

Global change and health - the good, the bad, and the evidence (2002)

Lee, Kelly, McMichael, Tony, Butler, Colin, Ahern, Mike, Bradley, David

Debates over the merits and demerits of globalisation for health are increasingly polarised. Conclusions range from globalisation being essentially positive for health, albeit with a need to smooth...