Second edition | Climate and Health

last update: July 13, 2024. The index for this book was submitted to the publisher last week. We hope the book will be published later this month. We thank all contributors, reviewers, photographers and those who were identifiable in the photos (all of whom, where practicable, have given permission). Publisher's website: https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/book/10.1079/9781800620025.0000

Dedicated, with gratitude, to three of the most important people to have inspired us:

Maurice King, Tony McMichael and Will Steffen.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword (Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [1997-2002])

Introduction to the second edition

SECTION 1: Foundations

1. The Anthropocene: A planet under pressure (Will Steffen)

2i. Rising inequality is neither inevitable nor essential (Richard Dennis)

2ii. Climate change and the scourge of carbon inequality (Kerryn Higgs)

2iii. Inequality is driving us over a cliff (Colin D Butler)

3. Nuclear weapons, climate disruption and planetary health (Tilman A. Ruff)

4. Climate change, global health and planetary health (Colin D. Butler)

SECTION 2: Ecology and Health

5. One Health: From rinderpest to the threat of a four degree world (Colin D. Butler and Rosemary A. McFarlane)

5i. A practical, integrated way to build a One Health workforce - using One Health problem based learning cases for in service training programmes in Africa (Janetrix Hellen Amuguni)

5ii. Food safety, food systems and One Health (Delia Randolph)

6. Landuse, biodiversity loss, and health (Jessica Stanhope, Christopher B. Daniels and Philip Weinstein)

6i. The biodiversity hypothesis for health emerged from a natural experiment in the Finnish and Russian Karelia (Tari Haahtela)

7. Pandemics and their co-factors: A short history (Colin D. Butler)

8. Limits to Growth (Kerryn Higgs)

9. Population, neoliberalism and "human carrying capacity"(Colin D. Butler) see abstract

10. Sexual and reproductive health and rights: The relevance of family planning (Colin D. Butler)

10i. Reproductive health in Papua New Guinea: A vignette (Glen Mola)

SECTION 3: Primary Health Effects

11. Heat impacts, adaptations and inequities (Matthew Chersich)

11.i Thermoregulation: Risks and protection (Ollie Jay)

11.ii Kidney disease (Katherine Barraclough)

12. Occupational heat effects: A global health and economic threat (Colin D. Butler, Jason Lee, Subhashis Sahu and Tord Kjellstrom)

13. A great disaster: The floods of 2022 in Pakistan Disasters (Kerryn Higgs)

14. The double-whammy of stoichiometric imbalance: C, H, O, and minerals in global food nutrition (Irakli Loladze) abstract

SECTION 4: Secondary Health Effects

15. Temperature related rise in the potential malaria burden in Ethiopia. A proposal for a taxation model to address climate justice. Menno J Bouma, Colin D Butler

16. Arboviruses, vectors, poverty and climate change (Colin D. Butler, Cyril Caminade and Andy Morse)

17. Lyme disease and climate change (Nick Ogden)

18. Overview of human helminthiases (Alexander J. Blum and Photini Sinnis)

19. Water and sanitation (Katrina Charles)

20. Global air pollution, fire, climate change, and health (Colin D. Butler, Ivan C. Hanigan)

SECTION 5: Tertiary Health Effects

21. Climate change and its “tertiary” effects: Thinking systemically in a world of limits (Colin D. Butler)

22. Famine, hunger and climate change (Colin D. Butler) abstract

23. Climate change, migration and health (Colin D. Butler and Devin C. Bowles)

24. Climate change, conflict, complexity and health (Colin D. Butler, Mark Braidwood and Devin C. Bowles)

25. Collapse: The climate endgame (Peter Stoett and Rob White)

SECTION 6: Cross-cutting Issues

26. Climate change and global mental health (Fiona Charlson, Rebecca Patrick and Cybele Dey)
27. Nutrition, soil organic carbon and sustainability: Multiple benefits of regenerative agriculture (Robyn Alders, Kate Wingett, Rosemary A. McFarlane, Stewart Sutherland, Justin Borevitz and Namukolo Covic)

28. Climate change, breastfeeding and health (Julie Smith)

29. Disasters, education, public health and climate change (Ruth Irwin)

30. Communication and climate change (Rebecca Colvin)

SECTION 7: Regional Health Impacts, Focussing on the Global South

31. Health, climate and challenges in Africa: 2023-2100 (Colin D. Butler, Devin C Bowles, Kofi Amegah, Caradee Wright)

31i. Health systems in Africa (Juliet Nabyonga-Orem)

31ii. Climate change, gender and health in Africa (Caradee Wright)

31iii. Ethical dimensions of air pollution and climate change in Africa (Kofi Amegah)

32. Climate change and health in South Asia (Colin D. Butler and Md Rezanur Rahaman)

32i. Heatwaves and health in South Asia, focusing on India (Gulrez Shah)

32ii. Occupational health in India (Subhashis Sahu and Moumita Sett)

33. Climate Change and Health in China (Yuming Guo, Ke Ju, Pei Yu, Yao Wu, Bo Wen and Shanshan Li)

34. Climate change and health in Indonesia: (Colin D. Butler and Budi Haryanto)

35. The health impacts of the climate crisis in the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau (Collin Tukuitonga)

36. Europe and and climate change: Impacts, risks and opportunities (May CI van Schalkwyk and Martin McKee)
37. Climate change and health in the Arctic (Shilpa Rao, Kristine Bjerve Gutzkow, Susanne Hyllestad, Solveig Jore, Cathrine Thomsen, Gro Dehli Villanger, Khaled Abass, Barbara Berner, Anne Lise Brantsæter, Hubert Dirven, Marit Låg, Helle Margrete Meltzer, Arja Rautio, Ågot Aakra, Johan Øvrevik, Christine Instanes)

SECTION 8: Conclusion

38. Public health, policy and climate change (Alistair Woodward, Kirsty Wild and Jonathan Samet)

39. Health activism and the challenge of planetary change, including to the climate (Colin D. Butler, Sue Wareham and Andrew Harmer)

40. Climate change and global health: Developing a social vaccine to motivate transformation (Colin D. Butler, Andrew Harmer, Devin C Bowles). abstract

Editors: Colin D Butler and Kerryn Higgs