Environmental Pollution, Climate Change and Human Health: Determinants, Impacts and Responses for a Paradigmatic Change
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2022) | Viewed by 6688
Special Issue Editors
Interests: global health; global governance; development cooperation; international organizations; international cooperation; global studies; sustainable development strategies; non-profit management; public management; governance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to strengthen the knowledge of the impacts of environmental pollution on human health, highlighting response strategies and working towards healthier environments for all. The body of scientific evidence is increasingly showing new interlinkages between environmental pollution and human health, going beyond the traditional non-communicable diseases and encompassing domains such as mental health, maternal and reproductive health, as well as the unprecedented coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its interconnections with losses of biodiversity.
While environmental pollution and climate change are gaining significant scientific and political momentum amid the broad spectrum of health risk factors, an additional effort is needed to put forward cost-effective mitigation and adaptation plans, prevention and exposure reduction strategies, as well as to enforce environmental laws and standards, with the aim of providing health benefits at national and regional levels. Further development of environmental health policies and interventions requires a multidisciplinary and multisectoral strategies that encompass a “one health” approach, an all-government and all-society vision, investing in the health sector as a leader of change. With a vision of societal paradigmatic change, new and emerging scientific evidence, understandings of health determinants, public health interventions, environmental health education campaigns and advocacy actions, citizen science and capacity-building efforts in the health sector are the main foci of this Special Issue.
The issue is now open for submissions.
Topics include:
- Environmental pollution, health outcomes and policies;
- Societal and development models as environmental health determinants;
- Climate change and health;
- Climate policies for health;
- Greening the health sector (including the health sector’s environmental footprint);
- Environmental health education;
- COVID-19 and environmental health;
- Citizen science;
- “One health”, sustainable development and the path toward a society for health.
Prof. Eduardo Missoni
Dr. Samantha Pegoraro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental health
- climate change
- air, soil and water pollution
- public health interventions
- capacity building
- health sector education
- behavioral decision-making
- sustainability
- education for environmental citizenship
- one health
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