Health Impacts of Resource Insecurity on Vulnerable Populations
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 2178
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water insecurity; food insecurity; housing insecurity; infrastructure development; structural violence; environmental induced stressors
2. Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Interests: resource insecurity; environmental and disease vulnerability; health inequity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Resource insecurity, defined as a scarcity of and a lack of access to essential resources—food, water, housing/household utilities (gas, electricity/energy source)—is rapidly escalating, affecting the health and wellbeing of diverse populations. These resource threats are significantly hindering the achievement of several sustainable development goals, particularly SDGs 1-6, which are largely dependent on water, food, housing, and energy securities. With the increased occurrence of global emergencies—such as adverse climate conditions, global inflation, the spread of infectious diseases, and political instabilities—household incomes are worsening, and chronic shortages regarding the supply of and access to these basic amenities which are essential in supporting one’s quality of life. The most affected are vulnerable households in urban and rural communities across the globe, more specifically, those in the Global South. It is crucial that we implement robust and evidence-based mitigation measures to avert severe resource insecurities, especially in resource-disadvantaged countries. However, research to inform policy shifts regarding resource insecurity and sustainable development is still inadequate.
In this Special Issue, we aim to bring together papers focusing on the social and health consequences of resource insecurity, the co-occurrence of either food, water, energy, and/or housing insecurity, and exploring sustainable solutions. We are seeking empirical research or conceptual/theoretical works which examine the relevant processes and issues, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Climate change and resource insecurities;
- Sustainable development goals and resource insecurities;
- Sustainable adaptations to changing resource security environments;
- Systemic barriers and increased vulnerabilities to resource insecurities.
Dr. Patrick Mbullo Owuor
Dr. Godfred O. Boateng
Dr. Elizabeth Onyango
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water insecurity
- food insecurity
- housing insecurity
- energy insecurity
- resource insecurity
- low- and middle-income countries
- sustainable development
- gendered inequalities
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