Climate Change Technology and Innovation
Innovative use of space-based technologies to address climate change and related global health crises. The Journal of Climate Change and Health.
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WHAT IS PLANETARY HEALTH?
Climate Change
Increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, driven by human activity, negatively impacts global ecological systems and human health.
Human-driven emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and black carbon are primarily responsible for an unstable and changing climate, and most are produced by burning fossil fuels and altering natural habitats. Glacial melting, rising sea levels, increased global temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, and changes in the abundance, distribution, and composition of species are all linked to the changing climate.
Globally, nearly twice as many natural disasters occurred between 2000 and 2019 and affected roughly 1 billion more people than the period spanning 1980 and 1999. Heat waves, droughts, fires, floods, tropical storms, and other extreme weather events pose both near- and long-term threats to human health and intergenerational equity. For example, particulate matter from fires reduces air quality and causes morbidity and mortality from cardiorespiratory disease; flooding leads to biological contamination of water supplies, displacement, injury, and trauma; and more intense coastal storms, combined with sea level rise and loss of coastal barrier systems (mangrove forests, vegetated dunes, coral reefs, and wetlands), generate a “triple threat” for inhabitants of low-lying coastal areas. Survivors of extreme weather events face long-term, serious physical and mental health impacts.
Climate change and ecosystem transformations are inextricably connected and often mutually exacerbated.
The field of Planetary Health uses a systems approach to connect the complexities of anthropogenic drivers of climate change to natural hazards. Understanding these relationships in terms of cause-and-effect is the first step in addressing climate change and its widespread effects on the planet’s ecosystems and well-being of its inhabitants.
We must take note of these causal relationships and advocate for living within planetary boundaries to preserve what climate stability we can for the safety of future generations and our biosphere.
Climate Change Resources
Climate Change
Climate change and health in the Sahel: A systematic review. Royal Society Open Science.
The Sahel region is projected to be highly impacted by the more frequent hazards associated with climate change, including increased temperature, drought and flooding. This systematic review examined the evidence for climate change-related health consequences in the Sahel.
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Climate Change
Climate change and its effect on health outcomes: An empirical investigation of Sub-Saharan Africa countries. Springer Nature Social Sciences.
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Infectious Diseases Climate Change
Multivariate vector autoregressive modelling of malaria with climate and vegetation factors in a remote hilly region of Northeast India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.
This study models Malaria transmission and provides a solution for common data inconsistencies encountered in healthcare and epidemiological research, while also offering predictions on incidence rates, thereby enabling more informed decision-making processes.
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Mental Health Climate Change
Conceptualizing a multi-theoretical model for understanding climate change impacts on youth mental health. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work.
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