Groundswell Africa

Rigaud, Kanta Kumari; Sherbinin, Alex de; Jones, Benjamin A.; Arora, Amit; Adamo, Susana B.

doi:10.1596/36446

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“…The impact of climate change on human conflict and migration is especially relevant for countries in the Global South, and given that the number of climate refugees from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia alone is predicted to increase by 143 million people before 2050, it is critical to continue conducting research on this consequential climate change exposure and its potentially global effects. 21…”

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Published Research on the Human Health Implications of Climate Change from 2012-2019: a Cross-Sectional Study

Bartlett

Gupta

Wallach³

et al. 2022

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Importance: Climate change is one of the most pressing global public health issues and is increasingly gaining attention from governments and researchers as a critical policy and research focus. While research on the effects of climate change on human health has grown significantly over the past few decades, there remain known gaps in research on non-physical health topics, like mental health, and in research on low-income countries. Objective: To better understand the current state of research on the human health effects of climate change, including exposures, health conditions, populations, areas of the world studied, funding sources, and publication characteristics, with a focus on topics that are relevant for vulnerable populations. Evidence Review: We searched the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal, a curated bibliographic database of global peer-reviewed research and gray literature on the science of climate impact on human health, to identify peer-reviewed original research investigating the health effects of climate change published from 2012 to 2019. The database combines searches of multiple search engines including PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar and includes added-value expert tagging of climate change exposures and health impacts. We filtered our search by year published, limited to original research articles published in English. After identifying all original research articles, we selected a 5% random sample to manually perform a detailed characterization of research topics and publication information. Findings: There were 7082 original research articles published between 2012 and 2019, and the number of articles increased by 23% annually. In our random sample of 348 articles, we found that there were several gaps in research topics that are particularly relevant to vulnerable populations, such as those in the Global South (159; 45.7%) and the elderly (55; 15.8%). Additionally, fewer first authors were from the Global South (110; 31.6%), which may in part explain why there is disproportionally less research focusing on these countries. Conclusions and Relevance: Our results help elucidate gaps in research that, once addressed, may help us better understand and mitigate some of the most devastating effects of climate change on human health.

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Published Research on the Human Health Implications of Climate Change from 2012-2019: a Cross-Sectional Study

Bartlett

Gupta

Wallach³

et al. 2022

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“…17 The World Bank estimates that extreme weather events will generate 143 million climate migrants in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia by 2050. 18 As of 2020, nearly one-quarter of the global migrant population resided in the United States 14 and more than 44% of the US immigrant population emigrated from Asia, including the Middle East, or Latin America. 19 Estimates suggest 45% of immigrants residing in the United States are naturalized citizens, 27% have lawful permanent residence, 5% have temporary lawful residence, and 23% have undocumented legal statuses.…”

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Immigration and Immigrant Policies, Health, and Health Equity in the United States

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r There is growing attention to the role of immigration and immigrant policies in shaping the health and well-being of immigrants of color.r The early 21st century in the United States has seen several important achievements in inclusionary policies, practices, and ideologies toward immigrants, largely at subnational levels (e.g., states, counties, cities/towns). National policies or practices that are inclusionary toward immigrants are often at the discretion of the political parties in power.r Early in the 21st century, the United States has implemented several exclusionary immigration and immigrant policies, contributing to record deportations and detentions and worsening inequities in the social drivers of health.

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“…For both NDCs and NAPs, migration is most often referenced in African countries. This high level of integration is linked to high levels of especially internal migration in African countries as well as high levels of vulnerability and low levels of resilience due to the high dependence on agriculture for livelihoods (Rigaud et al, 2021). Displacement is referenced in some countries of all regions except Europe but specifically close to the equator.…”

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Addressing climate-related human mobility through NDCs and NAPs: State of play, good practices, and the ways forward

Mombauer¹,

Link

Geest

2023

Front. Clim.

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Climate change is altering human mobility patterns across the globe, particularly in climate-vulnerable developing countries. With increasing recognition of the complex interlinkages between climate change and human mobility, governments and subnational authorities have begun to address this nexus in planning and policy processes, including Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). To better understand how human mobility is integrated into NDCs and NAPs, we analyzed 171 NDCs and 40 NAPs, and conducted 20 semi-structured interviews and 16 workshops and webinars. We find that human mobility is increasingly featured in NDCs, but only few countries propose concrete interventions to address adverse effects or promote adaptive aspects of human mobility. The study also finds that many countries primarily focus on mobility as a risk, challenge, or problem while some have incorporated positive aspects of mobility (e.g., migration as an adaptation strategy). Through six concise case studies, the paper focuses on good practices from specific NDCs and NAPs that can enhance the integration of human mobility in a range of priority policy sectors for adaptation and loss and damage. To move forward, interviewees and workshop participants emphasized the need for adequate finance, institutional capacities, and data to strengthen the integration of human mobility into NDCs and NAPs. There is a need to identify and better understand potential policy interventions at the local, national, and global level, and to assess their impact and map potential synergies.

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Groundswell Africa

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

Published Research on the Human Health Implications of Climate Change from 2012-2019: a Cross-Sectional Study

Published Research on the Human Health Implications of Climate Change from 2012-2019: a Cross-Sectional Study

Immigration and Immigrant Policies, Health, and Health Equity in the United States

Addressing climate-related human mobility through NDCs and NAPs: State of play, good practices, and the ways forward

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