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of climate and poverty, for instance Shang (2023) includes consumption, income, health, and revenue recycling and shows that just looking at one of these could easily give an erroneous picture, see also Archibong & Annan (2023) for an overview of studies on the pathway through epidemics. ...
while striving for greater resilience against similar events in the future. Her book considers a range of disasters and impacts, from floods, droughts and storms to epidemics, food shortages, riots and rebellions.
social care may aggravate inequality of health outcomes related to climate change. Health education and public preparedness measures that take into account differential exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity of different groups help address health and social inequalities to do with climate change. Adap...
Although the number of climate-health studies has significantly increased in Vietnam since 2012, these studies have not been properly reviewed to inform the health sector's action plans, strategies, and policies on climate change and health. A search of peer-reviewed and preprint systematic, scopin...
Paul works to accelerate action by business to tackle climate change and inequality. As CEO of Unilever, from 2009 to 2019, he demonstrated that business can profit through purpose, delivering shareholder returns of 290% while the company consistently ranked first in the world for sustainability....
Climate change impacts in the mountains of the HKH are already substantive. Increased climate variability is already affecting water availability, ecosystem services, and agricultural production, and extreme weather is causing flash floods, landslides, and debris flow. Climate change is likely to have ...
(Uslaner & Brown,2005, p. 869), which inequality reduces. Yet, inequality is only one of the mechanisms through which major crises may affect morality and trust. Institutional failures in managing crises represent an alternative mechanism witnessed in the case of historical epidemics and natural ...
Climate change adaptation actions that also advance sustainable development goals (SDGs) have the potential to reduce exposure to climate risks and social vulnerability and enhance human wellbeing (Zhenmin and Espinosa, 2019; IPCC, 2022). Gender inequality inherited from historical, socio-economic devel...
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