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Taxonomy Archive: drought
20 Apr 2018 |
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Can Living With Long-Term Drought Cause Trauma?
While climate scientists warn about the dangers droughts pose to the natural world, Dr. Irwin Redlener worries about its effects on minds and bodies.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and Australian agriculture: a review of the threats facing rural communities and the health policy landscape
Population health is a function of social and environmental health determinants. Climate change is predicted to bring significant alterations to ecological systems on which human health and livelihoods depend; the air, water, plant, and animal health. Agricultural systems are intrinsically linked with environmental conditions, which ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and farmers’ mental health: risks and responses
Climate change is exacerbating climate variability, evident in more frequent and severe weather-related disasters, such as droughts, fires, and floods. Most of what is known about the possible effects of climate change on rural mental health relates to prolonged drought. But though drought is known to be a disproportionate and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Lessons on Climate Change and Poverty From the California Drought
This report explores the intersection of climate change and inequality in the context of the California drought, highlighting the unqiue and disproportionate challenges faced by California’s low-income and farming communities. Finally, the report offers recommendations for better addressing these disparities with urgency in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Drought, climate change increase intensity of California wildfires
Because of the continuing California drought, authorities predicted another dangerous year, and the Sherpa Fire is one of 1,800 wildfires state and forest service firefighters have battled since January. In a June 1 Letter to the Editor, “SLO County tackles the health effects of climate change,” rising temperatures, frequent ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Extreme events as sources of health vulnerability: Drought as an example
The health risks of climate change arise from the interactions of the hazards associated with a changing climate (e.g. increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather and climate events, such as drought), the communities exposed to those hazards, the susceptibility of communities to adverse health impacts when exposed, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fires in West Have Residents Gasping on the Soot Left Behind
The air in the San Joaquin Valley hangs thick with gray-brown dust, a result of the state’s largest fire, which has burned through more than 160 square miles in the nearby hills. The fire has so far spared lives and homes. But it has exposed one of the obscured effects that four years of record […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food Insecurity and the California Drought
No other drought has severely affected the state of California within the past century like the 2014 drought. In 2014, California faced its third year of drought, which tightened resources statewide. Agriculture, businesses and residents alike faced losses caused by the state’s water deficit. One important implication of the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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High and Dry: Climate Change, Water, and the Economy
The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with consequences that could be large and uneven across the globe. Water-related climate risks cascade through food, energy, urban, and environmental systems. Growing populations, rising incomes, and expanding cities will converge upon a world where ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Drought
Climate Change and Drought: What it means to tribes and how we can adapt