2021 Climate and Health Review – Uncharted Territory: Extreme Weather Events and Morbidity

Sheehan, Mary C.

doi:10.1177/00207314221082452

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“…(Very high confidence)." Climate change has exacerbated the frequency and severity of extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, floodings, and storm surges [3,4]. For instance, heat waves affect people's cognitive performance [5] bring about a higher risk of death from ischemic strokes, especially among women [6].…”

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Climate Change, Food Security, and Health: Harnessing Agroecology to Build Climate-Resilient Communities

2022

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Climate change threatens human health, food security, and ecological sustainability. In marginalized and vulnerable communities around the globe, there is a crucial need to initiate actions to reduce adverse climatic impacts and support sustainable development goals (SDGs), particularly on food and health. Climate change’s multidimensional and complex impact on food and health has prompted calls for an integrated, science-based approach that could simultaneously improve the environment and nourish development-constrained communities. This paper examines a transdisciplinary practice of agroecology that bridges the gap between science, practice, and policy for climate action. We also analyze the significance of agroecology in building climate-resilient communities through sustainable food systems. We assert that the marriage of science and local knowledge that addresses access inequities through agroecology can lessen the impact of climate change on rural communities to achieve healthier, more sustainable, and equitable food systems. Furthermore, a transformative agroecological paradigm can provide farmers with a host of adaptive possibilities leading to healthier communities, improved food security, and restored lands and forests that can sequester greenhouse gases. Based on our findings, we call on the science and policy communities to integrate agroecology as part of the broader strategic approach to climate change adaptation and mitigation.

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Climate Change, Food Security, and Health: Harnessing Agroecology to Build Climate-Resilient Communities

2022

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“…The elephant in the room of the climate crisis is our overconsumption of animal products, specifically animal protein (Rӧӧs et al, 2012;Sanchez-Sabate & Sabaté, 2019), and if we delve deeper, the patriarchal, colonialist and capitalist systems that position the commodification of nonhuman animals as natural, normal, and necessary (Joy & Harari, 2020); a basic feature of consumer society (Spannring, 2019); a material expression of prosperity (Sanbonmatsu, 2011), or even a human right (United Nations, 1948). Fishery management reform is arguably insufficient to replenish shark populations and restore biodiversity's devastating losses (Brondizio et al, 2019;Maxwell et al, 2016;Pereira et al, 2012 ) from where we sit within the sixth mass extinction (Cowie et al, 2022;Lewis & Maslin, 2015), already facing famine and food insecurity (Hasegawa et al, 2021), fossil fuel wars (Shapiro et al, 2022), and extreme weather events (Sheehan, 2022). At this critical juncture, global reliance on animal-source foods is increasing (FAO, 2021;Parlasca & Qaim, 2022) as is the global demand for shark meat (Dent & Clarke, 2015), precisely when substantial reductions in average meat consumption are urgently required to limit global warming to 1.5℃ (Clark et al, 2020;Godfray et al, 2018;Sun et al, 2022;Willett et al, 2019).…”

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Sharkless Makeup > Sharkless Oceans

Nicholson

2024

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<p>Since 1970, the global abundance of sharks has declined by 71% owing to an 18-fold increase in fishing pressure. The number of sharks caught as bycatch now exceeds the number of targeted catches, though industrial uses of bycatch are unknown. Trade routes for shark fins and meat are relatively well documented, but little is known about shark liver oil ‚Äî the richest natural source for squalene ‚Äî principally used in cosmetics. Endpoint market monitoring is crucial for improving our understanding of the shark trade. Stable isotope analysis of ·∫ü C using gas chromatography - combustion - isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-C-IRMS) can successfully determine squalene's source in finished cosmetic samples of mixed squalene origin. Results show that 26% of cosmetics contain shark-derived squalane, including samples carrying vegan or plant-based squalane claims. This research points to the urgent need for raw materials testing and the acquisition of species-specific data to eliminate this commercial threat to sharks. </p>

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“…Highlights: [1]. Each year, drought negatively impacts millions of people and costs the world billions of dollars [2].…”

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Meteorological Drought Analysis Using Multiple Indices for Selected Stations in Iraq

Kazanchi,

Awchi

2024

Tikrit j. eng. sci.

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This study aims to assess the performance of three drought indices for drought monitoring to study the characteristics of meteorological drought in Iraq, which are the Standard Precipitation Index (SPI), the China-Z Index (CZI), and the Modified China-Z Index (MCZI) on 1-, 3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-month timescales, using monthly precipitation data from 1980 to 2021. These indices were used to analyze the spatiotemporal dynamics of droughts using the rainfall data collected from five meteorological stations scattered across the four climatic zones as classified by Köppen in Iraq. According to the study, the Pearson correlation coefficient (r) values among the indices increase with increasing time scale and give similar drought characteristics at the 9-month and 12-month time scales. SPI generally indicated the drought event earlier and with more severe characteristics than the other indices. MCZI showed wetness earlier than the other two indices, and it also described the drought categories similarly to SPI and CZI, especially in the northern regions of Iraq, but it was less official in describing it as we headed down to the south. While CZI described the drought as having less severity than SPI, it frequently gives the same classifications of drought as SPI. CZI could be used as a good meteorological drought monitor, depending on the month, the length of the drought duration, and the climatic conditions of the region. It might be an alternative to the SPI, which needs long rainfall records and has a complicated structure. SPI and CZI can be considered good indices for describing drought in all regions of Iraq. The result shows that 1980, 1993, 1995, and 2019 were the most wet years; 2007–2010 was the most severe drought event; and Iraq's climate was normal to moderate drought during the studied period for all considered stations.

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2021 Climate and Health Review – Uncharted Territory: Extreme Weather Events and Morbidity

Cited by 12 publications

References 41 publications

Climate Change, Food Security, and Health: Harnessing Agroecology to Build Climate-Resilient Communities

Climate Change, Food Security, and Health: Harnessing Agroecology to Build Climate-Resilient Communities

Sharkless Makeup > Sharkless Oceans

Meteorological Drought Analysis Using Multiple Indices for Selected Stations in Iraq

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