Abstract:There are various climate risks that are caused or influenced by climate change. They areknown to have a wide range of physical, economic, environmental and social impacts. Apart fromdamages to the physical environment, many climate risks (climate variability, extreme events andclimate-related hazards) are associated with a variety of impacts on human well-being, health,and life-supporting systems. These vary from boosting the proliferation of vectors of diseases (e.g.,mosquitos), to mental problems triggered by damage to properties and infrastructure. There isa great variety of literature about the strong links between climate change and health, while there isrelatively less literature that specifically examines the health impacts of climate risks and extremeevents. This paper is an attempt to address this knowledge gap, by compiling eight examples froma set of industrialised and developing countries, where such interactions are described. The policyimplications of these phenomena and the lessons learned from the examples provided are summarised.Some suggestions as to how to avert the potential and real health impacts of climate risks are made,hence assisting efforts to adapt to a problem whose impacts affect millions of people around theworld. All the examples studied show some degree of vulnerability to climate risks regardless oftheir socioeconomic status and need to increase resilience against extreme events.
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↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5858400/pdf/ijerph-15-00331.pdf