Handling Climate Change Impacts
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The book "One Health, Eco-health, and Planetary Health Perspective" is an integrative academic text that synthesizes three critical, evolving frameworks for understanding global health. It transcends traditional disciplinary silos by examining the inseparable connections between human health, animal health, and the integrity of ecosystems, all under the overarching pressures of global environmental change. Its core aim is to articulate a coherent, unified vision that leverages the strengths of each approach-One Health's operational focus on zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance, Eco-health's emphasis on socio-ecological systems and participation, and Planetary Health's macro-scale analysis of anthropogenic disruption to Earth's natural systems.
This book makes a pivotal contribution to the literature by moving beyond comparative analysis to propose a synergistic, transdisciplinary paradigm. It fills a significant gap by providing a consolidated intellectual foundation and practical roadmap for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. The various chapters advance the discourse by arguing that these are not competing but complementary lenses, all essential for addressing complex challenges like pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change. It thus serves as a seminal call for holistic governance and research, pushing the literature toward greater integration and actionable strategies for securing the health of all species and the biosphere.
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Walter Leal Filho is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management" at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 800 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.
Hélder Silva Lopes is an assistant professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Minho, teaching in Geography, Civil Protection and Territorial Management, and Architecture. He is an integrated researcher at the Lab2PT (Laboratory of Landscapes, Heritage, and Territory), collaborator of the IdRA (Water Research Institute) - Climatology Group (Barcelona) and member of the Compor Mundos Network - Humanities, Well-being, and Health in the 21st Century, of the Fernando Pessoa Foundation. His main research interests are climate change, environmental perception, citizen science, nature-based solutions and geostatistics. He has published several articles in international journals indexed in WoS and SCOPUS, as well as book chapters in some of the most notorious international publishing companies.
Maria Pia Ferraz graduated in Food Engineering from ESB -UCP in 1996. She obtained a PhD in Engineering Sciences from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 2000 and completed her habilitation in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at FEUP in 2023. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEM -FEUP) and a Senior Researcher at i3S. She has been involved in several national and international research projects. She has published numerous articles in international journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus, as well as book chapters with leading international publishers. She currently serves as Vice-President of the FEUP Ethics Committee and is a member of the Ethics Committee of the University of Porto.
Content
Chapter 1. Assessing Physical and Digital Health Policy Interventions in the Climate-Vulnerable Arctic in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.- Chapter 2. Planetary Health Considerations: Investigating the Relationship between Planetary Systems and Health Outcomes.- Chapter 3. Public policies with a One Health approach for the management of bacterial resistance and antibiotics as adaptation strategies to climate change.- Chapter 4. One Health, One Future: A Constitutional Approach to Securing Children's Rights in a Changing Climate.- Chapter 5. Earth, Wind, and Fire - plus Water: Strategic knowledge nurtures human life.- Chapter 6. "Vulnerability" for Whom? The Silence on Gender in Brazil's Climate Adaptation Policies.- Chapter 7. Strengthening One Health Approach: Collaboration between Animal, Human, and Environmental Health Sectors to Prevent Climate-Driven Disease Spillovers.- Chapter 8. Reimagining climate governance through one health and planetary health paradigms.- Chapter 9. Climate Resilience Across Scales: Connectedness From Multispecies Sustainability to Planetary Health.- chapter 10. Integrating Health and Sustainability in China: between Healthy China 2030, Healthy Cities and Eco-Civilization Frameworks.- Chapter 11. Blue Carbon, Clear Waters, Resilient Communities: Can Coastal Wetlands Sustain Livelihoods under a Changing Climate?.- Chapter 12. The mental health cost of climate change and multi-level strategies for climate resilience: an Italian experience.- Chapter 13. HUMAN THERMAL COMFORT IN BALNEÁRIO CAMBORIÚ, BRAZIL - THE MOST VERTICALIZED CITY IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.- Chapter 14. Climate Change and the Emergence of New Diseases: A Concern for Public Health.- Chapter 15. Impact of climate change on agriculture in the MENA region: Empirical Evidence.- Chapter 16. Understanding the health impacts of climate change on female agricultural farmers across Africa.- Chapter 17. Assessing Impact of Climate Change on Eco-Health of Urban Riparian Zones: A Multi-Indicator Approach.- Chapter 18. Climate Change Induced Ecosystem Degradation, Community Health Vulnerabilities and Eco-Health Resilience in Climate-Vulnerable Regions of Nigeria.- Chapter 19. Food Insecurity and Nutritional Resilience in Rural Communities of Nigeria: Climate Change Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Strategies through One Health and Eco-health Lenses.- Chapter 20. Eco-Health Strategies for Controlling Vector-Borne Diseases in Climate-Vulnerable Regions of Nigeria.- Chapter 21. Construction sector influence in global health: Insights from LNEC's Research Program.- Chapter 22. Urban furniture for climate crisis: urgent adaptation of public urban spaces.- Chapter 23. Building Climate Resilience for Vulnerable Populations Through Health and Technology Integration in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 24. AI-Assisted Radiological Imaging for Climate-Exacerbated Respiratory Diseases: A Systematic Review.- Chapter 25. AI-Driven Climate-Smart Policies and Environmental Health: Advancing Eco-Health and Planetary Resilience.- Chapter 26. One Health in Practice: Human, Animal and Environmental Interactions in the Climate-Stressed Indian Sundarbans.