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Exclusive Papers Collection of Editorial Board Members and Invited Scholars in Section Climate Change

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Climate Change".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 10999

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Prof. Dr. Kristie L. Ebi

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Department of Global Health, University of Washington, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Interests: health risks of climate variability and change; health adaptation; health co-benefits of mitigation policy; sustainable development
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Section "Climate Change", I am pleased to announce this Collection titled "Exclusive Papers Collection of Editorial Board Members and Invited Scholars in Section Climate Change". This issue will be a collection of papers from our Section Editorial Board Members (and researchers invited by the Editorial Board Members). The aim is to provide a venue for networking and communication between IJERPH and scholars in the field of climate change and health. All papers will be published with fully open access after peer review.

Prof. Dr. Kristie L. Ebi
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • elaborate causal pathways relating global environmental changes to health
  • quantify associations between weather and health, taking into consideration other key drivers
  • assess the current burden of climate-sensitive disease
  • identify thresholds and time of emergence of climate-sensitive health outcomes
  • project climate-sensitive disease burdens under different climate and development pathways, including health system impacts, focused on how changing weather patterns could affect the geographic range, seasonality, and/or burden of health outcomes
  • examine challenges and opportunities for multisectoral adaptation partnerships that benefit human health
  • identify, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of adaptation policies and programs
  • estimate the range of health co-benefits of climate change mitigation policies and technologies

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Commentary
Addressing Capacity Constraints of Rural Local Health Departments to Support Climate Change Adaptation: Action Is Needed Now
by Matthew V. Vo, Kristie L. Ebi, Tania M. Busch Isaksen, Jeremy J. Hess and Nicole A. Errett
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(20), 13651; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013651 - 21 Oct 2022
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Looming climate change health impacts among rural communities will require a robust health system response. To reduce health inequities and promote climate justice, rural local health departments (LHDs) must be adequately resourced and supported to engage in climate change mitigation and adaptation policy [...] Read more.
Looming climate change health impacts among rural communities will require a robust health system response. To reduce health inequities and promote climate justice, rural local health departments (LHDs) must be adequately resourced and supported to engage in climate change mitigation and adaptation policy and program development and implementation. In the United States, small local tax bases, overreliance on revenue from fee-based services, and limited federal funding to support climate change and health programming, have left rural LHDs with limited and inflexible human, financial, and political capital to support engagement in local climate change activities. Because of the urgent demands stemming from climate change, additional investments and supports are needed to rapidly build the capacity and capability of rural LHDs. Federal and state approaches to public health funding should consider the unique climate change and health risks of rural communities. Further, cross-jurisdictional shared service arrangements and state-level support to build rural LHDs’ technical capacity, and research on local impacts and culturally appropriate solutions, must be prioritized. Full article
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Commentary
Urban Climate Policy and Action through a Health Lens—An Untapped Opportunity
by Audrey de Nazelle, Charlotte J. Roscoe, Aina Roca-Barcelό, Giselle Sebag, Gudrun Weinmayr, Carlos Dora, Kristie L. Ebi, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen and Maya Negev
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(23), 12516; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312516 - 27 Nov 2021
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Motivated by a growing recognition of the climate emergency, reflected in the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), we outline untapped opportunities to improve health through ambitious climate actions in cities. Health is a primary reason for climate action yet is rarely integrated [...] Read more.
Motivated by a growing recognition of the climate emergency, reflected in the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), we outline untapped opportunities to improve health through ambitious climate actions in cities. Health is a primary reason for climate action yet is rarely integrated in urban climate plans as a policy goal. This is a missed opportunity to create sustainable alliances across sectors and groups, to engage a broad set of stakeholders, and to develop structural health promotion. In this statement, we first briefly review the literature on health co-benefits of urban climate change strategies and make the case for health-promoting climate action; we then describe barriers to integrating health in climate action. We found that the evidence-base is often insufficiently policy-relevant to be impactful. Research rarely integrates the complexity of real-world systems, including multiple and dynamic impacts of strategies, and consideration of how decision-making processes contend with competing interests and short-term electoral cycles. Due to siloed-thinking and restrictive funding opportunities, research often falls short of the type of evidence that would be most useful for decision-making, and research outputs can be cryptic to decision makers. As a way forward, we urge researchers and stakeholders to engage in co-production and systems thinking approaches. Partnering across sectors and disciplines is urgently needed so pathways to climate change mitigation and adaptation fully embrace their health-promoting potential and engage society towards the huge transformations needed. This commentary is endorsed by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) and accompanies a sister statement oriented towards stakeholders (published on the societies’ websites). Full article
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