The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations

Abstract

She is also an Honorary Consultant Researcher with the Ni3 Centre at the University of Huddersfield, UK, an institution that addresses domestic violence. She is developing a body of work on the social impacts of climate change for vulnerable populations. This seeks to highlight, but is not confined to, the links between gender inequalities and climate change. Dr. Joseph has undertaken work in the areas of domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, women fisher folk, environmental sustainability, disasters, and climate change. Furthermore, she has completed studies of tropical Storm Erika-Dominica; Hurricane Maria-Dominica; and undertaken a Family Case Study and discussed the impact of female-headed households post-Hurricane Maia-Dominica. She received the "Jeremy Collymore Award for Research in Humanitarian Response and Disaster Risk Management" for the year 2019.Dr. Roshnie A. Doon is currently an independent researcher in the field of Labour Economics. She holds a PhD in Economic Development Policy, an MSc in Economics, and a BSc in Economics from the University of the West Indies St. Augustine, Trinidad. She pursued a master class in International Business from the Henley School of Business at the University of Reading, U.K., and is currently an affiliate of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen, Germany, and an executive committee member of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS), Trinidad and Tobago Chapter. Her academic interests are focused on applied and empirical economics, with work in the areas of labour, gender, and education economics. She has published research on a wide range of areas, which include higher education instruction, economic implications of COVID-19, returns to schooling, educational mismatch, STEM education, wage inequality, gender wage gaps, and economic development policy. ix ForewordIt is a privilege to be able to continue to contribute to the body of literature addressing vulnerability and marginality in the climate change field. As an interdisciplinary scholar in both Environmental studies and Africana and Latin American studies, my work sits at the nexus of environmental psychology, environmental justice, and natural resource management. Over the past decade and a half, the bulk of my work has been with marginalized and vulnerable communities in the Caribbean and the US as they experience climate change impacts and other environmental injustices such as food access and the impacts of oil and gas drilling. My scholarship examines the ways in which fishers in the Caribbean are disproportionately impacted by climate change and highlights the everyday strategies that are used to adapt to impacts that they experience.This text, The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations: Social Responses to a Changing Environment by Debra D. Joseph and Roshnie A. Doon, continues to center climate change and its impact on vulnerable and marginalized communities. Climate change is an existential threat to the world; if not addressed, it has the potential to cause irreparable damage to ecosystems and...