This new edition provides a substantially updated, authoritative, critical and yet accessible perspective on public health aspects of climate change, including chapters on "cross-cutting" issues (e.g. mental health) and the impacts on several regions, including China, Africa and South Asia.
There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases.
Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving and championing a third ("tertiary") category of longer term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, conflict and collapse. This edition has an expanded foundation, with new chapters discussing nuclear war, population, and limits to growth, among others.
This lively yet scholarly resource explores all these issues, finishing with a practical discussion of avenues to reform. As Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, states in the foreword: "Climate change interacts with many undesirable aspects of human behavior, including inequality, racism and other manifestations of injustice. Climate change policies, as practiced by most countries in the global North, not only interact with these long-standing forms of injustice, but exemplify a new form, of startling magnitude."
The book is dedicated to Tony McMichael, Will Steffen, and Maurice King.
This book will be invaluable for students, post-graduates, researchers and policy-makers in public health, climate change, and medicine.
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Students and post-graduates in public health, climate change and medicine
SECTION 1: FOUNDATIONS 1: The Anthropocene: A Planet Under Pressure. 2i:
Rising Inequality is Neither Inevitable nor Essential. 2ii: Climate Change
and the Scourge of Carbon Inequality. 2iii: Inequality is Driving us Over a
Cliff. 3: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Disruption and Planetary Health. 4:
Climate Change, Global Health and Planetary Health. SECTION 2: ECOLOGY AND
HEALTH 5: One Health: From Rinderpest to the Threat of a Four Degree World.
5i: A Practical, Integrated Way to Build a One Health Workforce - Using One
Health Problem Based Learning Cases for In Service Training Programmes in
Africa. 5ii: Food Safety, Food Systems and One Health. 6: Landuse,
Biodiversity Loss, and Health 6i: The Biodiversity Hypothesis for Health
Emerged From a Natural Experiment in the Finnish and Russian Karelia. 7:
Pandemics and Their Co-Factors: A Short History. 8: Limits to Growth. 9:
Population, Neoliberalism and "Human Carrying Capacity". 10: Sexual and
Reproductive Health and Rights: The Relevance of Family Planning. 10i:
Reproductive Health in Papua New Guinea: A Vignette. SECTION 3: PRIMARY
EVENTS AND THEIR HEALTH EFFECTS 11: Heat Impacts, Adaptations and Inequities.
11i: Thermoregulation: Risks and Protection. 11ii: Kidney Disease. 12:
Occupational Heat Effects: A Global Health and Economic Threat. 13: A Great
Disaster: The Floods Of 2022 In Pakistan. 14: The Double-Whammy of
Stoichiometric Imbalance: C, H, O, and Minerals in Global Food Nutrition.
SECTION 4: SECONDARY EVENTS AND THEIR HEALTH EFFECTS 15: Temperature Related
Rise in the Potential Malaria Burden in the Ethiopian Highlands. A Proposal
for a Taxation Model to Address Climate Justice. 16: Arboviruses, Vectors,
Poverty and Climate Change. 17: Lyme Disease and Climate Change. 18: Human
Helminthiases and Climate Change: An Overview. 19: Water and Sanitation. 20:
Global Air Pollution, Fire, Climate Change, and Health. SECTION 5: TERTIARY
EVENTS AND THEIR HEALTH EFFECTS 21: Climate Change and its Tertiary
Effects: Thinking Systemically in a World of Limits. 22: Famine, Hunger, Food
Prices and Climate Change. 23: Climate Change, Migration and Health. 24:
Climate change, Conflict, Complexity and Health. 25: Collapse: The Climate
Endgame. SECTION 6: CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES 26: Climate Change and Global Mental
Health. 27: Nutrition, Soil Organic Carbon and Sustainability: Multiple
Benefits of Regenerative Agriculture. 28: Climate Change, Breastfeeding and
Health. 29: Disasters, Education, Public Health and Climate Change. 30:
Communication and Climate Change. SECTION 7: REGIONAL HEALTH IMPACTS,
FOCUSSING ON THE GLOBAL SOUTH 31: Health, Climate and Challenges in Africa:
2024-2100. 31i: Health Systems in Africa. 31ii: Climate Change, Gender and
Health in Africa. 31iii: Ethical Dimensions of Air Pollution and Climate
Change in Africa. 32: Climate Change and Health in South Asia. 32i: Heatwaves
and Health in South Asia, Focusing on India. 32ii: Occupational Health in
India. 33: Climate Change and Health in China. 34: Climate Change and Health
in Indonesia. 35: The Health Impacts of the Climate Crisis in the Cook
Islands, Niue and Tokelau. 36: Europe and Climate Change: Impacts, Risks and
Opportunities. 37: Climate Change and Health in The Arctic. SECTION 8:
CONCLUSION 38: Public Health, Policy and Climate Change. 39: Health Activism
and the Challenge of Planetary Change, Including to the Climate. 40: Climate
Change and Global Health: Developing a Social Vaccine to Motivate
Transformation.
Colin Butler (Edited By) Colin's interest in and experience of health in the global South date to the early 1980s; his interest in climate change and health to 1989, the year he co-founded the NGOs BODHI US and BODHI Australia, each of which is particularly active in South Asia. Colin contributed to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2002-05) as a co-ordinating lead author for the conceptual framework and scenarios working groups, and to the health chapter of the 5th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. In 2014 Colin became the first Australian IPCC author to be arrested protesting climate change policy inertia. His academic qualifications include in medicine and epidemiology. Colin has published almost 300 articles, chapters and miscellanea in scholarly outlets, not only on climate change, but also on population growth, development, poverty and conflict.
Kerryn Higgs (Edited By) Kerryn Higgs is an Australian writer. She received her PhD in Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of Tasmania (UTAS). Her 2014 book Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet (MIT Press) examined ideas about limits to material growth, resistance to those ideas, the elevation of growth as the central objective of policy-makers (especially since 1975 or so), and the mounting influence of corporate-funded think tanks dedicated to the propagation of neoliberal principles and to the denial of health and environmental dangers. Kerryn has published widely on the limits to growth debate, sustainability (including the Sustainable Development Goals), development, poverty and inequality. She taught history at Melbourne University and environmental studies at the University of New South Wales. She is currently a University Associate with the School of Political Science at UTAS and an Associate Member of the Club of Rome.
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