Climate Change and Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Climate Change and Health: An Overview of the Issues and Needs

   • Walter Leal Filho, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Fátima Alves

   Pages 1-11

3. Human Health and Climate Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Extreme Weather Events: Addressing the Mental Health Challenges

      • Jyotsana Shukla

      Pages 15-27

   3. Mental Well-Being and the Eco-State: A Classification of Regions and Countries of the European Union

      • Paola E. Signoretta, Veerle Buffel, Piet Bracke

      Pages 29-48

   4. The Bioclimatic (Dis)comfort and Summer Thermal Paroxysms in Continental Portugal: Intensity, Frequency and Spatial Contrasts

      • Susana Oliveira Moço, José Eduardo Ventura, Malheiro Ferreira

      Pages 49-71

   5. Effects of Temperature Variation on the Human Cardiovascular System: A Systematic Review

      • André Luís Foroni Casas, Gabriella Mendes Dias Santos, Natalia Bíscaro Chiocheti, Mônica de Andrade

      Pages 73-87

   6. Can Concern for Air Quality Improvement Increase the Acceptability of Climate Change Mitigation Policies?

      • Vittorio Sergi, Paolo Giardullo, Yuri Kazepov, Michela Maione

      Pages 89-106

   7. The Health Sector in an Adaptive Dialectic Strategy: The Case of the São Paulo’s Municipal Policy on Climate Change

      • Rubens Landin, Leandro Luiz Giatti

      Pages 107-115

   8. Reducing Food Waste in the Food Service Sector as a Way to Promote Public Health and Environmental Sustainability

      • Beatriz Oliveira, Ana Pinto de Moura, Luís Miguel Cunha

      Pages 117-132

   9. A Review on the Impact of Climate Change on Food Security and Malnutrition in the Sahel Region of Cameroon

      • Nkwetta Elvis Chabejong

      Pages 133-148

4. Climate Change and Infectious Diseases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. The Social and Political Dimensions of the Ebola Response: Global Inequality, Climate Change, and Infectious Disease

      • Harris Ali, Barlu Dumbuya, Michaela Hynie, Pablo Idahosa, Roger Keil, Patricia Perkins

      Pages 151-169

   3. Climate Variation and Challenges of Human Health in Nigeria: Malaria in Perspective

      • Vincent Nduka Ojeh, Sheyi A. Aworinde

      Pages 171-185

   4. Climate Change and Mosquito-Borne Diseases

      • Teresa Nazareth, Gonçalo Seixas, Carla A. Sousa

      Pages 187-199

   5. Climate Impacts on Dengue Risk in Brazil: Current and Future Risks

      • Paula Carvalho Pereda, Denisard Cneio de Oliveira Alves

      Pages 201-230

   6. Climate Change and Health Vulnerability in Bolivian Chaco Ecosystems

      • Marilyn Aparicio-Effen, Ivar Arana, James Aparicio, Cinthya Ramallo, Nelson Bernal, Mauricio Ocampo et al.

      Pages 231-259

5. Climate Change and Health: Education, Training and Governance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261

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   2. Training Institute on Climate and Health: Mercosur Experience

      • Gilma Mantilla, Carmen Ciganda, Graciana Barboza, Francisco Chesini, Laura Frasco, Silvia Fontán et al.

      Pages 263-277

   3. Improving Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Cultures Through Environmental Education: A Case Study in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

      • Marcos Barreto de Mendonca, Teresa da-Silva-Rosa, Tulio Gava Monteiro, Ricardo de Souza Matos

      Pages 279-295

A major objective of this volume is to create and share knowledge about the socio-economic, political and cultural dimensions of climate change. The authors analyze the effects of climate change on the social and environmental determinants of the health and well-being of communities (i.e. poverty, clean air, safe drinking water, food supplies) and on extreme events such as floods and hurricanes. The book covers topics such as the social and political dimensions of the ebola response, inequalities in urban migrant communities, as well as water-related health effects of climate change. The contributors recommend political and social-cultural strategies for mitigate, adapt and prevent the impacts of climate change to human and environmental health. The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners interested in new methods and tools to reduce risks and to increase health resilience to climate change.

• Clean air
• Climate change adaptation
• Climate change mitigation
• Climate resilience
• Disaster risk reduction
• Ebola
• Environmental health
• Environmental migration
• Floods
• Health politics
• Health resilience
• Human health
• Hurricanes
• Pollution
• Poverty
• Safe drinking water
• Climate change management

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

  Walter Leal Filho

• CFE University of Coimbra, Universidade Aberta and, Porto, Portugal

  Ulisses M. Azeiteiro

• Universidade Aberta, Porto, Portugal

  Fátima Alves

Walter Leal Filho is a professor at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where he leads a set of international projects on matters related to sustainable development and climate change.
Fátima Alves, Phd in Sociology of Health, is Professor at Social Sciences an Management Department, Universidade Aberta and senior Researcher at CEMRI, UAb and at CEF, Coimbra University. Coordinates the extension of the Centre for Functional Ecology of Coimbra University. 


Ulisses M Azeiteiro is a Professor at the Universidade Aberta and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Functional Ecology of Coimbra University where he is the Coordinator of the Group History of Science, Scientific Communication and Dissemination . In the area of Sustainability he is member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education and he published several books in Sustainability Science.

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