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Apr 2018

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Minding the Climate Gap: What’s at Stake if California’s Climate Law Isn’t Done Right and Right Away

This report explores whether or not implementation of cap-and-trade in California might fail to capture public health benefits, or even make an already inequitable situation worse, taking into account co-pollutants.

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Apr 2018

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The Climate Gap: Inequalities in How Climate Change Hurts Americans & How to Close the Gap

This report explores disparities in the impacts of climate change and the abilities of different groups to adapt to it. It also offers concrete recommendations to closin the climate gap, starting with insuring that climate solutions don’t leave anyone behind.

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Apr 2018

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The social dimensions of climate change: discussion draft

This paper addresses the social dimensions of climate change from a sustainable, equitable development perspective, understood as “an irreducible holistic concept where economic, social and environmental issues are interdependent dimensions that must be approached within a unified framework”, and where the overarching outcome is ...

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Apr 2018

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Climate change adaptation: where does global health fit in the agenda?

Human-induced climate change will affect the lives of most populations in the next decade and beyond. It will have greatest, and generally earliest, impact on the poorest and most disadvantaged populations on the planet. Changes in climatic conditions and increases in weather variability affect human wellbeing, safety, health and ...

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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 ...

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Apr 2018

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Climate change and child health

Postindustrial human activity has contributed to rising atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases causing global warming and climate change. The adverse effects of climate change affect children disproportionately, especially in the developing world. Urgent action is necessary to mitigate the causes and adapt to the negative effects of ...

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Apr 2018

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Climate change and children’s health

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To present the latest data that demonstrate how climate change affects children’s health and to identify the principal ways in which climate change puts children’s health at risk. RECENT FINDINGS: Data continue to emerge that further implicate climate change as contributing to health burdens in ...

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Apr 2018

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Climate change and children’s health—a call for research on what works to protect children

Climate change is affecting and will increasingly influence human health and wellbeing. Children are particularly vulnerable to the impact of climate change. An extensive literature review regarding the impact of climate change on children’s health was conducted in April 2012 by searching electronic databases PubMed, Scopus, ...

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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 ...

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Apr 2018

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How Farmworkers Experience A Warming Climate

Rising summer temperatures will particularly affect the health of people who make a living outdoors – building roads, landscaping yards and harvesting crops.

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