Climate Change, Human Health, and Social Stability: Addressing Interlinkages
Publisher: Environmental Health Perspectives
Author(s): Samuel Sellers, Kristie L. Ebi, and Jeremy Hess
Date: 2019
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Governance, Public Health, Renewable Resources
Although increasing evidence exists that climate change, health, and social instability are related, key questions remain about the pathways linking these factors, as well as the magnitude, causality, and directionality of relationships across spatial and temporal scales. Models seeking to explain and predict climate-related social unrest should incorporate the many linkages between climate change, human health, and social instability. Members of the environmental health research community should work closely with those in the political science and economics communities to help deepen understandings of climate-related stressors and shocks that affect instability and worsen health outcomes