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Climate Change and Health Hazards

Addressing Hazards to Human and Environmental Health from a Changing Climate

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Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

    1. Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Diogo Guedes Vidal

    1. Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet (CFE), TERRA Associate Laboratory, Department of Life Sciences (DCV), University of Coimbra (UC), Coimbra, Portugal

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  3. Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

    1. UFP Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit (FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), Porto, Portugal

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  • Is very international
  • Presents a combination of projects, case studies, and practical experiences
  • Addresses interdisciplinary authorship

Part of the book series: Climate Change Management (CCM)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Theoretical Approaches to Climate Change Impacts on Human and Environmental Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Thinking Beyond Borders: How Can Humanities and Social Sciences Help to Deal with Climate Change Health Hazards in the Twenty-First Century? Outputs of the Transdisciplinary Network “Composing Worlds: Humanities, Well-being and Health in the 21st century”

      • Diogo Guedes Vidal, Marina Prieto Afonso Lencastre, Susana Magalhães, Eduardo Paz Barroso, Álvaro Campelo, Pedro Cunha et al.
      Pages 3-24

    3. Climate Change and Health: Essay on the Limits of Naturalism

      • Marina Prieto Afonso Lencastre, Diogo Guedes Vidal, Eduardo Paz Barroso, Álvaro Campelo, Teresa Martinho Toldy, Susana Magalhães et al.
      Pages 25-39

    4. Mental Health, Well-Being and Climate Change: Scope and Challenges

      • Carla Alexandra Martins da Fonte, Sónia Maria Martins Caridade, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
      Pages 41-55

    5. Climate Change Impact on Mental Health: Is Nature Fighting Us Back?

      • Isabel Maria Sousa Lopes Silva, Gloria Svietlana Jólluskin García, Paulo José Ribeiro Cardoso, Allison Margaret Byrne
      Pages 57-73

  3. Climate Change Impacts on Human and Environmental Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. 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
      Pages 77-97

    3. Climate Change and Transmissible Diseases

      • Maria Pia de Melo Alvim Ferraz Tavares, Gisela Marta Teixeira de Sousa Oliveira
      Pages 99-113

    4. 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
      Pages 115-133

    5. The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Wellbeing in the Municipality of Porto—An Analysis Based on Remote Sensing

      • Hélder Lopes, Paula Remoaldo, Vítor Ribeiro, Javier Martín-Vide
      Pages 135-172

    6. The Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Human Health—Examples from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

      • Darija Vukić Lušić, Daniel Maestro, Arijana Cenov, Maja Radišić, Dražen Lušić, Marin Glad et al.
      Pages 173-196

    7. 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
      Pages 197-208

    8. 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 Abeldaño Zuñiga, Deysi Ofelmina Jerez-Ramírez
      Pages 209-227

    9. Climate Change and Mental Health in Bangladesh: A Cultural Variability Perspective

      • Nazwa Tahsin, Weronika Z. Gąsior, Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
      Pages 229-249

    10. Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Security in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean

      • Gabriela Narcizo de Lima, Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga, Mina Margaret Ogbanga
      Pages 251-275

    11. Gender Gaps in Food Security in Mexico, in the Context of a Changing Environment

      • Diana Guadalupe Antonio Sánchez, María Alejandra Sánchez Bandala, Nelly Victoria Gutiérrez Moguel, Gabriela Narcizo de Lima, Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga
      Pages 277-291

    12. Assessing the Climate Change-Related Health Hazards in Africa

      • Newton R. Matandirotya, Tonderai Dangare, Girma Berhe
      Pages 293-305

  4. Climate Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307
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    2. 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
      Pages 309-329
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About this book

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°C. 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 changeconnects to human health and the role played by hazards in this context. It is against this background that this book is being prepared.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  • Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet (CFE), TERRA Associate Laboratory, Department of Life Sciences (DCV), University of Coimbra (UC), Coimbra, Portugal

    Diogo Guedes Vidal

  • UFP Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit (FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), Porto, Portugal

    Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Climate Change and Health Hazards

  • Book Subtitle: Addressing Hazards to Human and Environmental Health from a Changing Climate

  • Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Diogo Guedes Vidal, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

  • Series Title: Climate Change Management

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26592-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-26591-4Published: 07 April 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-26594-5Published: 08 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-26592-1Published: 06 April 2023

  • Series ISSN: 1610-2002

  • Series E-ISSN: 1610-2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 455

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environmental Management, Environmental Health, Environmental Policy

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