Call for Papers on Special Issue: Climate Crisis and Health

"Environmental Research" journal is currently running a special issue entitled "Climate Crisis and Health".

Guest editors for this issue welcome contributions from various disciplines.

There is a unanimous scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions generated by human activity are changing Earth's climate, becoming one of the biggest global health challenges of the 21st century. In fact, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecasts an increase in the global average temperature by 2100 within the range 1.4–5.8 °C. Change in world climate influence the functioning of many ecosystems and their member species. Likewise, impacts on human health might occur in a variety of ways – mostly adversely. Climate change threatens the crucial elements of good health – clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food supply, and safe shelter – and has the potential to undermine decades of progress in global health. Consequently, potential impacts of climate change on health are being increasingly reported and documented. In turn, it is forecasted that between 2030 and 2050, climate change will cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress alone. Areas with weak health infrastructure – mostly in developing countries – will be the least able to cope without assistance to prepare and respond. Climate change management for public health is not limited to environmental issues, but ethical, social, political and economic in nature. Today, there is growing interest in climate change’s effect on human health and acknowledgment of its link to other topics, such as environmental justice, risk analysis, risk perception, data analytics, and public policy. Hence, a multidisciplinary scientific approach is necessary to: i) understand how the complex system of climate change and health is linked and interact; ii) propose innovative, valuable and timely solutions to such a complex problem at local, regional and global scale.

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Submission Period: 10 Mar 2020 - 30 Jun 2020

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