Climate Change and Health Impacts in the South Pacific: A Systematic Review

Alam, Mumtaz; Kundra, Sakul; Nabobo-Baba, Unaisi; Alam, Mohammad Afsar

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15501-7_29

Cited by 3 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 37 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In the Pacific islands of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Oceania, Indigenous people are at the frontline of climate change impacts. The nations of the Pacific have unique and diverse island and marine ecosystems and cultures that are facing significant impacts from changes to climate (Nurse et al, 2014;Alam et al, 2022). These changes directly threaten the health of Pacific islanders, as well as economic and social development.…”

Section: Indigenous Health and Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Centring localised indigenous concepts of wellbeing in urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation: case-studies from Aotearoa New Zealand and the Cook Islands

Mihaere,

Holman-Wharehoka,

Mataroa

et al. 2024

Front. Environ. Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Nature-based solutions (NbS) offer significant potential for climate change adaptation and resilience. NbS strengthen biodiversity and ecosystems, and premise approaches that centre human wellbeing. But understandings and models of wellbeing differ and continue to evolve. This paper reviews wellbeing models and thinking from Aotearoa New Zealand, with focus on Te Ao Māori (the Māori world and worldview) as well as other Indigenous models of wellbeing from wider Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Oceania. We highlight how holistic understandings of human-ecology-climate connections are fundamental for the wellbeing of Indigenous peoples of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Oceania and that they should underpin NbS approaches in the region. We profile case study experience from Aotearoa New Zealand and the Cook Islands emerging out of the Nature-based Urban design for Wellbeing and Adaptation in Oceania (NUWAO) research project, that aims to develop nature-based urban design solutions, rooted in Indigenous knowledges that support climate change adaptation and wellbeing. We show that there is great potential for nature-based urban adaptation agendas to be more effective if linked closely to Indigenous ecological knowledge and understandings of wellbeing.

show abstract

Section: Indigenous Health and Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Centring localised indigenous concepts of wellbeing in urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation: case-studies from Aotearoa New Zealand and the Cook Islands

Mihaere,

Holman-Wharehoka,

Mataroa

et al. 2024

Front. Environ. Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Centering Indigenous Wellbeing in Just Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience: Findings from Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Oceania

Mihaere,

Latai Niusulu,

Holman-Wharehoka

et al. 2024

Handbook of Nature-Based Solutions to Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience and Human Health

2024

Frontiers Research Topics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Climate change and rapid urbanization have significant impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services. Nature-based solutions (NBS) is an action to work with and enhance nature to solve social challenges, and NBS is an "umbrella concept" for other mature nature-based approaches. Blue-green spaces (BGS) can provide a wide range of ecosystem services, including mitigation of urban heat island effects, reduction of flooding, mitigation of air pollution, and provision of recreational spaces, thereby promoting physical and mental health. Hence, NBSs can serve as cost-effective climate mitigation and adaptation tool that contribute to additional co-benefits for ecosystem health and human well-being. Environmentalists, epidemiologists, ecologists, urban planners, and policymakers have paid more attention to NBSs for urban resilience and human health. In this Research Topic, we hope to discuss these topics: (1) ecological exposure and health benefits; (2) climate adaptation and human health promotion possibilities by NBSs; (3) methodological and theoretical approaches as well as technologies of NBSs corresponding to urban resilience; (4) underlying pathways and potential mechanisms of NBSs in improving human health; and (5) policies and management for planning and design of the successful implementation of NBSs in relation to urban resilience and human health. This Research Topic focuses on, but is not restricted to the following issues: • Nature-based interventions for climate adaptation. • Ecological exposure and physical and psychological health outcomes. • Climate adaption environmental policies and management.

show abstract

Climate Change and Health Impacts in the South Pacific: A Systematic Review

Cited by 3 publications

References 37 publications

Centring localised indigenous concepts of wellbeing in urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation: case-studies from Aotearoa New Zealand and the Cook Islands

Centring localised indigenous concepts of wellbeing in urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation: case-studies from Aotearoa New Zealand and the Cook Islands

Centering Indigenous Wellbeing in Just Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience: Findings from Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Oceania

Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience and Human Health

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About