Entries tagged with 'adaptation'

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  1. Natural and unnatural synergies: climate change policy and health equity

    Climate change and health inequities represent two of the greatest challenges to human development in the 21st century. As the Copenhagen summit on climate change planned for December 2009 approaches, there are opportunities to use the political momentum of climate change to promote health equity. The broad-ranging policies required to address climate change have both positive and negative implications for health and health equity. Similarly, interventions to reduce health gaps will not necessarily help stabilize the climate. Poorly designed policies could easily undermine both climate and health equity goals, and reduce public support for their implementation. This paper reviews the potential tensions between climate stabilization and improving health equity and discusses how these might be resolved. Sarah Catherine Walpole, Kumanan Rasanathan & Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2009;87:799-801. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.067116

    from SHEBA on 01 September 2009 | Direct link | Comment on this

  2. Health effects of climate change in the UK 2008: an update of the Department of Health report 2001/2002

    Climate change is perhaps the most significant environmental problem which mankind will face in the coming century. Efforts to reduce the extent of climate change are of course important, but it is likely that we will have to deal with at least some impacts on health. Preparing for climate change is now one of the top four shared priorities for UK action set out in 2005 in Securing the future: Delivering UK sustainable development strategy.

    from Department of Health on 12 February 2008 | Direct link | Comment on this