Climate change: impact on human health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. I. Lunyak
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Climate Change Impact ◽  
Change Impact

scholarly journals Public Perception of Climate Change Impact on Human Health in Trans Amadi Area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
H. O. Stanley ◽  
P. T. Bestmann ◽  
C. J. Ugboma
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Climate Change Impact ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
School Education ◽  
Port Harcourt ◽  
In Trans ◽  
Change Impact ◽  
Rivers State

This study examined the public perception of climate change impact on human health risks in Trans Amadi area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. An in-depth questionnaire on public perception of climate change and possible implications on human health was administered to participants within Trans Amadi area of Port Harcourt and their corresponding responses were analyzed and discussed. Demography of respondents showed 44% are male while 56% are females. On the educational level of respondents, the survey showed that 3% had just primary school education, 41% had up to secondary school education, 52% had acquired tertiary education and just 2% had non-formal education or are uneducated. Survey on respondents understanding and perception on climate change showed 85% - 93% response on awareness; 77% completely agreed that climate change poses a threat for the people around the world and that climate change is caused by human activities and the global temperature has changed compared to previous decades; 59% of the respondents somewhat agreed that the temperature within Trans Amadi region has changed drastically while 44% believes that climate change is only because of the pollution from industries within the area. A preponderance of the respondents (78%) strongly believed that climate change impacts most on vector borne diseases / infectious disease; 75% strongly believed that it causes shortage in food supply, 57% strongly believed it causes air pollutants while 45% strongly believed it impacts heavily on storm and flooding. There was a generally high awareness of the causes and effects of climate change among the respondents. Therefore compliance to reduce emission of gases that lead to global warming should be enforced in all areas and sectors of the economy and green approaches should be adopted in all that we do as humans.

Integrated and sustainable management of subsurface resources - Introducing the contributions of the four GeoERA groundwater projects to the European Geological Data Infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Hinsby ◽  
Laurence Gourcy ◽  
Hans Peter Broers ◽  
Anker L. Højberg ◽  
Marco Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Climate Change Impact ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Climate Change Impact Assessment ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Change Impact

<p>The IPCC and IPBES reports, the sustainable development goals of the United Nations and the societal challenges for Europe defined by Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe all emphasize the strong need for integrated and sustainable management of subsurface resources to protect society and biodiversity. The four GeoERA groundwater projects contribute to this important goal by studying the current and future quantitative and chemical status of European groundwater bodies. The quantity and quality issues related to natural processes, human activities and climate change are investigated to improve our basis for informed decision making e.g. for climate change mitigation and adaptation. The four projects provide new and important data for further development of the European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI) as a leading information platform for sustainable and integrated management of subsurface resources in Europe and one of the leading platforms, globally. The four projects will deliver “FAIR” (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data easily accessible for all relevant end users via EGDI. This will improve our understanding of the subsurface and support common efforts in public-private partnerships to meet the UN sustainable development goals and to develop efficient tools for climate change impact assessment, mitigation and adaptation. Here we briefly present some main objectives and deliverables of the four groundwater projects: <strong>1)</strong> <strong>HOVER</strong> – “Hydrogeological processes and geological settings over Europe controlling dissolved geogenic and anthropogenic elements in groundwater of relevance to human health and the status of dependent ecosystems” – studies e.g. I) geogenic (natural) groundwater quality issues affecting human health, II) polluted groundwater focusing on nitrate, pesticides and emerging contaminants that besides human health potentially affect biodiversity and the ecological status of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and III) groundwater age and travel time distributions in European aquifers, which are useful for assessment of the history, migration and fate of contaminants in the subsurface and the vulnerability of the European groundwater resources towards pollution <strong>2)</strong> <strong>RESOURCE</strong> – “Resources of groundwater, harmonized at cross-border and Pan-European Scale” – studies I) transboundary aquifers between Poland and Lithuania; as well as Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany; II) Karst and Chalk aquifers across Europe and III) Develops a new Pan European groundwater resources map that includes information on volumes, age and quality (salinity) <strong>3)</strong> <strong>TACTIC</strong> – “Tools for assessment of climate change impact on groundwater and adaptation strategies” – compiles and studies climate change impact assessment and adaptation tools within more than 40 pilot areas distributed across Europe and <strong>4)</strong> <strong>VoGERA</strong> –  “Vulnerability of shallow groundwater resources to deep sub-surface energy-related activities” – studies groundwater vulnerability to energy-related activities in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and Hungary.</p>

scholarly journals Climate change impact and uncertainty analysis on hydrological extremes in a French Mediterranean catchment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Thibault Lemaitre-Basset ◽  
Lila Collet ◽  
Guillaume Thirel ◽  
Juraj Parajka ◽  
Guillaume Evin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Uncertainty Analysis ◽  
Climate Change Impact ◽  
Hydrological Extremes ◽  
Change Impact
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