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20 Apr 2018 |
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The Effects of Flooding on Mental Health: Outcomes and Recommendations from a Review of the Literature
Introduction While most people who are involved in disasters recover with the support of their families, friends and colleagues, the effects on some people’s health, relationships and welfare can be extensive and sustained. Flooding can pose substantial social and mental health problems that may continue over extended periods of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Improving Public Engagement With Climate Change: Five “Best Practice” Insights From Psychological Science
Despite being one of the most important societal challenges of the 21st century, public engagement with climate change currently remains low in the United States. Mounting evidence from across the behavioral sciences has found that most people regard climate change as a nonurgent and psychologically distant risk—spatially, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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What We Breathe Impacts Our Health: Improving Understanding of the Link between Air Pollution and Health
Air pollution contributes to the premature deaths of millions of people each year around the world, and air quality problems are growing in many developing nations. While past policy efforts have succeeded in reducing particulate matter and trace gases in North America and Europe, adverse health effects are found at even these lower ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: household energy
Energy used in dwellings is an important target for actions to avert climate change. Properly designed and implemented, such actions could have major co-benefits for public health. To investigate, we examined the effect of hypothetical strategies to improve energy efficiency in UK housing stock and to introduce 150 million ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’
Urban green space, such as parks, forests, green roofs, streams, and community gardens, provides critical ecosystem services. Green space also promotes physical activity, psychological well-being, and the general public health of urban residents. This paper reviews the Anglo-American literature on urban green space, especially parks, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Role of law at the non-communicable diseases-climate change interface: considerations for planetary and population health policy
The contemporary way of living has not only damaged planetary health due to land use changes and increased production of greenhouse gases (GHGs), but the imbalanced consumption has also led to rapid increases in non-communicable diseases (NCDs).Climate change has been described as the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change, human health, and biomedical research: analysis of the National Institutes of Health research portfolio
BACKGROUND: According to a wide variety of analyses and projections, the potential effects of global climate change on human health are large and diverse. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its basic, clinical, and population research portfolio of grants, has been increasing efforts to understand how the complex ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Iowa Climate Statement 2014: Impacts on the Health of Iowans
Iowans are experiencing the very real impacts of climate change, including heavier rains in spring, increased flooding, and a longer growing season. Human health effects are just as real and are already being felt in Iowa. Most obvious, immediate, and direct are the health‐related effects of extreme events, which are increasing in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Ensuring Sustainable Field Crop Agriculture in the Face of a Changing Climate
Farmers across the U.S. are noticing impacts of changing climate conditions on their production systems. Heavier rain events, warmer winters, and more frequent droughts are some of challenges they face. To help educate farmers and agricultural professionals on climate change and agriculture topics, Julie Doll and researchers at ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict
Slide deck from the World Bank quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict.