by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change, Current Issue
VOLUME X, NO. 1 SPECIAL ISSUE 2020 Climate Change and Global Health Security: An Overview of the Scope and Issues Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. and Nicholas Seltzer Elevating the Status of Health in Global Environmental Politics: Securitizing the Nexus between...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. and Nicholas Seltzer The links between climate change and health security have been under investigation for decades. However, at its core, linking climate change to health security faces a number of complex obstacles, most of which are...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Geoffrey B. Cockerham Considerations of health have received little notice in international climate change negotiations and agreements. To address this issue, the nexus between climate change and health in global politics should be strengthened. I argue that this...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Andrew Defor and Theresa Valerie Oheneba-Dornyo The impact of climate change on human health is becoming increasingly evident. Several studies have linked disease outbreaks to climate change within the last decade, re-affirming the threat of climate change to human...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Summer Marion While health and climate science recognize a clear linkage between infectious diseases and effects of climate change, outbreaks and disasters are frequently framed as standalone crises in public discourse. Drawing on public policy image framing...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Yara M. Asi The needs of fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) are usually framed in terms of humanitarian or security aims. As a result, health security in FCAS is poor. Yet in the background of these competing forces is the approaching threat of climate...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Kelly F. Austin, Mark D. Noble, and Laura A. McKinney HIV/AIDS remains a serious public health threat in less-developed countries, especially for women. Drawing on ecofeminist perspectives, we explore linkages between climate-related disasters, food insecurity, and...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Destini M. Garrison, Radina P. Soebiyanto, Sarah Hutchinson, Assaf Anyamba and Tomoko Y. Steen The Republic of Yemen has concurrently fallen victim to political and climatic disruptions causing the largest cholera epidemic. Recent conditions in Yemen provide a...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Sebastian Kevany The Solomon Islands, as with many resource poor settings, faces multiple direct and indirect threats to public health. These include environmental, population, health security and globalization considerations; similarly, a range of ostensibly...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Thomas Lange What role can regions, or more precisely regional organizations, play in the further development of international health and climate policy? If one shifts the view from the global system to regional spaces, it becomes clear that the development of...
by ghgovernance | May 26, 2020 | 2020 Spring Issue, Climate Change
By Daniel Gilfillan Globally, negative climate change impacts on public health are addressed using a variety of managerial approaches. In donor-funded initiatives, project-based approaches dominate, however an emerging literature questions the effectiveness of the...
