The Impact Of Sea Level Rise On Developing Countries : A Comparative Analysis

Dasgupta, Susmita; Laplante, Benoı̂t; Meisner, Craig; Wheeler, David; Yan, David Jianping

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-4136

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“…Projections suggest, for example, that an additional 50 million people and 30 000 km² of land could be affected by coastal storm surges in 2100, with attendant risks of direct deaths and of infectious diseases. 94,95 Involuntary displacement of populations as a result of extreme events has major public health and policy consequences. In the longer term, flooding affects perceptions of security and safety, and can cause depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.…”

Section: Indirect and Complex Mechanisms Linking Climate Change And Hmentioning

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Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

2015

Br Dent J

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Executive summaryThe 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been formed to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in order to ensure the highest attainable standards of health for populations worldwide. This Commission is multi-disciplinary and international in nature, with strong collabor-ation between academic centres in Europe and China.The central finding from the Commission's work is that tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century. The key messages from the Commission are summarised below, accompanied by ten underlying recommendations to accelerate action in the next 5 years.The effects of climate change are being felt today, and future projections represent an unacceptably high and potentially catastrophic risk to human healthThe implications of climate change for a global population of 9 billion people threatens to undermine the last half century o f gains in development and global health. The direct effects of climate change include increased heat stress, floods, drought, and increased frequency of intense storms, with the indirect threatening population health through adverse changes in air pollution, the spread of disease vectors, food insecurity and under-nutrition, displacement, and mental ill health.Keeping the global average temperature rise to less than 2°C to avoid the risk of potentially catastrophic climate change impacts requires total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to be kept below 2900 billion tonnes (GtCO2) by the end of the century. As of 2011, total emissions since 1870 were a little over half of this, with current trends expected to exceed 2900 GtCO2 in the next 15-30 years. High-end emissions projection scenarios show global average warming of 2·6-4·8°C by the end of the century, with all their regional amplification and attendant impacts.Tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century Given the potential of climate change to reverse the health gains from economic development, and the health co-benefits that accrue from actions for a sustainable economy, tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of this century. Many mitigation and adaptation responses to climate change are "no-regret" options, which lead to direct reductions in the burden of ill-health, enhance community resilience, alleviate poverty, and address global inequity. Benefits are realised by ensuring that countries are unconstrained by climate change, enabling them to achieve better health and wellbeing for their populations. These strategies will also reduce pressures on national health budgets, delivering potentially large cost savings, and enable investments in stronger, more resilient health systems. The Commission recommends that over the next 5 years, governments:1 Invest in climate change and public health research, monitoring, and surveillance to ensure a better understanding of the adaptation needs and the potential health co-b...

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Section: Indirect and Complex Mechanisms Linking Climate Change And Hmentioning

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Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

2015

Br Dent J

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“…Vietnam has been reported to be one of the top five countries in the world that likely to be most affected by SLR with "potentially catastrophic" consequences [6]. Observed SLR data from tidal gauges along the coast of Vietnam [4] as shown in Fig.…”

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Temporal and Spatial Trend of Climate Variability in Vietnam

Nguyễn

2014

Review of Environment and Earth Sciences

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“…Recent research suggests that the sea level may rise by one meter or more in the 21 st century, which would increase the vulnerable population to about one billion by 2050 (Hansen and Sato 2011;Vermeer and Rahmstorf 2009;Pfeffer, et al 2008;Rahmstorf 2007;Dasgupta, et al 2009;Brecht, et al 2012). …”

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Drinking Water Salinity and Infant Mortality in Coastal Bangladesh

Dasgupta¹,

Huq²,

Wheeler³

2015

Policy Research Working Papers

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Bangladesh, with two-thirds of its land area less than five meters above sea level, is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world. Low-lying coastal districts along the Bay of Bengal are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise, tidal flooding, storm surges, and climate-induced increases in soil and water salinity. This paper investigates the impact of drinking water salinity on infant mortality in coastal Bangladesh. It focuses on the salinity of drinking water consumed during pregnancy, which extensive medical research has linked to maternal hypertension, preeclampsia, and post-partum morbidity and mortality. The study combines spatially-formatted salinity measures for 2001-09 provided by Bangladesh with individual and household survey information from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys for 2004 and 2007. It uses probit and logit analyses to estimate mortality probability for infants less than two months old. Controlling for many other determinants of infant mortality, the analysis finds high significance for salinity exposure during the last month of pregnancy and no significance for exposure during the preceding months. The estimated impact of salinity on infant mortality is comparable in magnitude to the estimated effects of traditionally-cited variables such as maternal age and education, gender of the household head, household wealth, toilet facilities, drinking water sources, and cooking fuels.

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The Impact Of Sea Level Rise On Developing Countries : A Comparative Analysis

Cited by 377 publications

References 23 publications

Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

Temporal and Spatial Trend of Climate Variability in Vietnam

Drinking Water Salinity and Infant Mortality in Coastal Bangladesh

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