Health Effects of Extreme Weather and Environmental Justice: The Intersecting Peril of Planet and Its Inhabitants
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 2639
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health effects of the environment; climate; and extreme weather; time–space modeling of the health effects of air pollution; climate-mediated health effects of air pollution; optimal spatiotemporal sampling; personalized real-time time health risk surveillance; personalize real-time air pollution monitoring; time–space kriging
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Interests: development and application of exposure methods, measurements, and models to chemical, physical, and biological stressors within community and occupational settings; application of exposure science in the context of health studies to evaluate environmental determinants of effects that are both salutogenic and adverse (e.g., cancer, neurotoxic, and respiratory); research that is strongly tied to the environmental interests and concerns of communities that identifies and informs environmental justice solutions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Anthropocene is marked by unprecedented alteration of the Earth’s natural systems. Climate change is one such alteration. Extreme weather events are a potent consequence with a host of direct and indirect impacts on the environment and public health for communities across the globe. This threat is exacerbated among vulnerable populations, including socioeconomically disadvantaged and minority communities. We invite scholarly articles that examine this important environmental health intersection of climate-change-related extreme weather and environmental justice. The selected papers will also be invited for oral presentation at the University of Miami Annual Climate and Health Symposium on 14–15 January 2022. The symposium will also provide travel and logistic awards to the selected presenters. The example topics of research for this Special Issue include:
- Nature and extent of the environmental health threats associated with extreme weathers, such as hurricanes, flooding, drought, and wildfires;
- Health disparities associated with extreme weather events;
- Strategies for preventing or mitigating health effects of extreme weather events;
- Use of retrospective data to predict communities vulnerable to the environmental health effects of climate-mediated extreme weather;
- Extreme weather mediated/modified health effects of environmental pollutants, e.g., severity and extent of the mortality and morbidity exacerbated due to an increase in environmental pollutants in the aftermath of hurricanes or wildfires or other natural disasters.
Dr. Naresh Kumar
Dr. Timothy J. Buckley
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- extreme weathers
- natural disasters
- health impacts
- climate change
- vulnerable populations and health disparities
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