Main description:

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact. It emphasizes the urgency of immediate and more ambitious action to address climate risks. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), human-induced climate change is known to be causing dangerous and widespread disruptions in nature and is affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. Climate change is also negatively influencing health and is mounting threat to our wellbeing and a healthy planet.

The world is also facing significant climate hazards over the next two decades, with global warming expected to soon reach 1.5 DegreesC. Even temporarily exceeding this warming level will result in additional severe impacts, some of which may be irreversible. There is therefore a perceived need for publications which may foster a greater understanding of how climate change connects to human health and the role played by hazards in this context. It is against this background that this book is being prepared.

Contents:

PrefaceWalter Leal Filho, Diogo Guedes Vidal, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

PART I - THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

2 Thinking beyond borders: how can humanities and social sciences help to deal with climate change health hazards in the XXI century? Outputs of the transdisciplinary network "Composing worlds: humanities, well-being and health"

Diogo Guedes Vidal, Marina Prieto Afonso Lencastre, Susana Magalhaes, Eduardo Paz Barroso, Alvaro Campelo, Pedro Cunha, Rui Estrada

20 Climate Change and Health: Essay on the Limits of Naturalism

Marina Prieto Afonso Lencastre, Diogo Guedes Vidal, Eduardo Paz Barroso, Alvaro Campelo, Teresa Martinho Toldy, Susana Magalhaes, Ana Gabriela Frazao-Nogueira, Rui Estrada

10 Mental health, well-being and climate change: scope and challenge

Carla Alexandra Martins da Fonte, Sonia Caridade, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

14 Climate change impact on mental health: Is nature fighting us back?

Isabel Silva, Gloria Jolluskin and Paulo Cardoso

PART II - CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

5 Industrial waste management in Ghana: environmental challenges and climate change impacts on human health

Justice Kofi Debrah, Godfred Kwesi Teye, Zujaja Wahaj, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

7 Climate change and transmissible diseases

Gisela Marta Oliveira, Maria Pia Ferraz

8 What will be the most critical driver of population dynamics: climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, or both?

Khandaker Jafor Ahmed, Nishat Tasneem, Bijoya Saha, Shah Md Atiqul Haq

11 The impacts of climate change on human wellbeing in the municipality of Porto - an analysis based on remote sensing

Helder Lopes, Paula Remoaldo, Vitor Ribeiro and Javier Martin-Vide

12 The impact of climate change on water resources and human health - examples from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Darija Vukic Lusic, Daniel Maestro, Arijana Cenov, Maja Radisic, Drazen Lusic, Marin Glad, Zeljko Linsak, Nerma Maestro, Dijana Tomic Linsak and Josip Rubinic

13 Unawareness about vector-borne diseases among citizens as a health risk consequence of climate change - a case study on leishmaniosis in Northwest Portugal

Teresa Letra Mateus, Solange Moreira, Rui Leandro Maia

16 Climate change and the increase in disasters related to hydrometeorological and climatic events in Mexico: main impacts on the population

Gabriela Narcizo de Lima, Roberto Ariel Abeldano Zuniga, Deysi Ofelmina Jerez Ramirez

18 Climate change and mental health in Bangladesh: a cultural variability perspective

Nazwa Tahsin, Weronika Z. Gasior, Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo

19 Impacts of Climate Change on agriculture and food security in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean

Gabriela Narcizo de Lima, Roberto Ariel Abeldano Zuniga, Mina Margaret Ogbanga

21 Gender gaps in food security in Mexico, in the context of a changing environment

Diana Guadalupe Antonio Sanchez, Maria Alejandra Sanchez Alejandra, Nelly Victoria Gutierrez Moguel, Gabriela Narcizo de Lima, Roberto Ariel Abeldano Zuniga

22 Assessing the climate change-related health hazards in Africa

Newton R. Matandirotya, Tonderai Dangare, Girma Berhe

PART III - CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE

1 Do the Resilience and Adaptive Capacity to Climate-Related Disasters Help Explain Human Health and Well-being?

Miguel Alves Pereira, Alexandre Morais Nunes, Diogo Cunha Ferreira

3 EU funding to promote climate change adaptation and risk prevention and management in Portugal: potential effects on mitigating health hazards

Eduardo Jose Rocha Medeiros

4 Increasing Healthcare Facilities Resilience to Hazards Resulting from Climate Change

By Judith Harvey, Clemens Buter and Dana van Alphen

6 Climate change and health Hazards: Mitigation Roles of public sectors (Ministry, Department & Agencies)

Umar Ibrahim

9 Changing fertility, child mortality and contraceptive prevalence rates in Bangladesh: effects of disaster risk reduction and family planning programs

Khandaker Jafor Ahmed, Yan Tan, Dianne Rudd

15 Climate change and humanitarian responses: a proposal of education for health hazards preparedness

Joao Casqueira Cardoso, Mahfuza Parveen, Mafalda S. A. Fonseca, and Laurine Grzelak

17 Effectiveness of public policy in the face of climate change: the case of coffee growing in the state of Chiapas - Mexico

Tanya Mendez Matus, Gabriela Narcizo de Lima

23 The Role of Education and Research in Human and Planetary Health

Walter Leal Filho, Juliane Boenecke, Derya Taser, Johanna Heimfarth