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The reality of climate change is inextricable from human health. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals include “ensuring healthy lives” in part by “substantially reducing the number of deaths and illnesses from…air, water and soil pollution and contamination” (SDG3.9) and taking “urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts” (SDG13). Climate change affects health directly, through the environment and extreme weather, and indirectly, through the spread of infectious disease. The crisis highlights the need for emergency preparedness for climate-related disasters, sustainable health systems that can withstand these challenges, and a broader understanding of the links between climate and health. Springer Nature has published a broad range of scholarship on these topics, which we hope will help guide policy to address these challenges. The company has also joined the Business Ambition for 1.5°C campaign, a commitment to set science-based targets to limit emissions to levels needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Analysis of Catastrophes and Their Public Health ConsequencesFeatured chapter: Catastrophes, Disasters, and Calamities: Concepts for Their Assessment | Technology and Global Public HealthFeatured chapter: | Handbook of Global HealthFeatured chapter: |
Handbook of Climate Change ManagementFeatured chapter: | The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security StudiesFeatured chapter: | Disasters and NeoliberalismFeatured chapter: Temporary Shelters and Health Services for Older Adults in Floods in the Metropolis of Monterrey |
How Phoenix Is Working to Beat Urban HeatThe U.S. city of Phoenix is one of the most severly impacted by extreme heat, due to its climate and the urban heat island effect. This article explores some of the ways the city is grappling with the extreme heat. | Climate change and mental health: a commentaryThe climate of our planet has always changed, however, that has happened in very extended geological epochs, while life exists in a much more abbreviated biological lifespan. What are the effects on mental health when the geological time frame of climate change is accelerated into our own biological time frame? |
Identifying climate-sensitive infectious diseases in animals and humans in Northern regionsWith the increasing concerns over the influence of climate change on infectious diseases, the authors of a new paper undertake an important project ‘Climate change effects on the epidemiology of infectious diseases and the impacts on Northern societies’ (CLINF) | Impact of an accelerated melting of Greenland on malaria distribution over AfricaHow can vector-borne diseases be impacted by non-linear climate instabilities, such as a rapid melting of the ice sheet, that can have a strong impact on climate? We try to answer this question by studying the impact of an accelerated melting of the Greenland ice sheet on climate and malaria in Africa. |
Green nephrologyfrom Nature Reviews Nephrology | Environmental sustainability in endodontics. A life cycle assessment (LCA) of a root canal treatment procedurefrom BMC Oral Health volume | Shifting transmission risk for malaria in Africa with climate change: a framework for planning and interventionfrom Malaria Journal | Worldwide disease epidemiology in the older personsfrom European Geriatric Medicine |
Why should public health agencies across Canada conduct climate change and health vulnerability assessments?from Canadian Journal of Public Health | Effects of COVID-19 on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)from Discover Sustainability | Home Energy Efficiency and Subjective Health in Greater Londonfrom Journal of Urban Health | Optimizing the health benefits of climate change policies using health impact assessmentfrom Journal of Public Health Policy |
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You can add impact and power to your SDG-related research when you publish it at Springer Nature, and alongside leading research (like the examples above). Research published OA at Springer Nature gets more exposure. For example, research published in fully OA Springer Nature journals are downloaded over 7,000 times on average (up to 5x more than competitors) and cited 7.39 times on average.
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