Climate Change and Human Health: Risks, Impacts and Adaptation
A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 222
Special Issue Editor
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter Medical School, European Centre for Environment & Human Health
Visiting Scholar, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Department of Environmental Science
Interests: climate change; human health; winter mortality; adaptation; policy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is an ever-increasing risk to human health. In addition to ongoing efforts in climate change mitigation, adaptation to climate change is now coming to the fore. Adaptation, contrary to mitigation, must be locally driven depending on the local impacts of climate change and the local conditions in terms of population characteristics, infrastructure, economic and social determinants. This Special Issue aims to bring together some of the latest advances on:
- the risks of climate change to human health across the globe,
- the impacts of climate change on human health, including direct weather impacts (e.g., flooding, heatwaves, drought, storms) and indirect impacts mediated by local ecosystems (e.g., vector borne diseases, food security, water quality),
- the adaptation requirements and approaches applied in different communities, regions and countries to safeguard human health from climate change.
As the global south is expected to bear the greatest impacts of climate change on human health, priority will be given to papers covering risks, impacts and adaptation in those regions most at risk. Papers focused on other regions will be considered if they bring novel ideas on how to implement adaptation actions, are multidisciplinary, or have significant policy implications.
Dr. Philip L. Staddon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change risks
- climate change impacts
- climate change adaptation
- health
- morbidity
- mortality
- extreme weather
- policy
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