Climate Change and Global Health
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects
2nd Edition
Published on 30. July 2024
Book
Hardback
544 pages
978-1-80062-000-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 behaviour, including inequality, racism and other manifestations of injustice. Climate change policies, as practised 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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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80062-000-1 (9781800620001)
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Persons
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.
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.
Editor
Australian National University, Australia
University of Tasmania, Australia
Contributions
SINTEF Industry, Norway
University of Oulo, Finland and University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
The Australian National University, Australia, Global Health Programme, UK and Kyeema Foundation, Australia and
University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Tufts University, USA
RAND Corporation, USA
University of Melbourne, USA
Formerly Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, USA
Content
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.