Climate Change and Disability

A Collaborative Approach to a Sustainable Future
Herausgeber: Alexander, Marcalee; Leochico, Carl Froilan D; Fogarty, Alexandra E

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Produktbeschreibung

Until recently, little attention has been paid to the concerns of people living with disabilities during extreme weather events and long-term climate changes. Climate Change and Disability: A Collaborative Approach to a Sustainable, Inclusive Future for All delineates the general and specific risks of climate change for people living with disabilities and how we can use accessible approaches to mitigate, adapt, and control these risks, while maximizing opportunities for people living with disabilities. The book opens with an introduction on how we got here. The book continues with sections on actions and research, the physiologic impact of different disabilities, and discussions of specific continents and countries, where issues related to climate change exist. Education and advocacy are covered in detail, and the book wraps up with a section on action and research, detailing how to respond to extreme weather events including how various types of disabilities are impacted by different events. Climate Change and Disability: A Collaborative Approach to a Sustainable, Inclusive Future for All serves as a guide for a broad audience at the crossroads of environmental adaptation and human health. Physicians, as well as nurses, physical and occupational therapists, and other allied health professionals will find it valuable for tailoring care for people living with disabilities due to climate change. Advocates and individuals living with disabilities will gain insight into advocacy for inclusive policies and personal preparedness. Scientists and clinicians interested in the health and societal impacts of climate change will find it useful in informing their research and practice. Policymakers and politicians can utilize this resource to develop equitable climate strategies, ensuring that environmental justice concerns are inclusive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 191mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9780443315688
• ISBN-10: 044331568X
• Artikelnr.: 72067134

Inhaltsangabe

I: Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Climate change 101: The basics of climate change
3. Climate change and health-What is the connection?
II: Considerations regarding disability
4. The need for new paradigms to assess and respond to the impacts of
climate change on disability
5. Indigenous Peoples, climate change, and disability justice
6. Climate change, gender, and disability
7. Children, youth, climate change, and disability
8. Environmental racism: From theory to praxis
9. How climate change affects sexual and gender diverse individuals with
disabilities
10. Religion, spirituality, and climate change
III: What to expect related to climate change and specific disabilities
11. Climate change and the profound disabilities: Spinal cord injury,
multiple sclerosis, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
12. Climate change and pediatric disabilities
13. Climate change, older adults, and people with chronic illness
14. Autism and climate change
15. Climate change and chronic pain
16. Climate change, arthritis, and musculoskeletal health considerations
17. Climate change and traumatic and nontraumatic brain disorders in adults
18. Climate change and hearing disabilities
19. Climate change and visual disability
20. Climate change and psychiatric disability
21. Climate change, sports medicine, and the adaptive athlete
IV: Education
22. Communicating about climate change and concerns related to disability
23. Transformative learning for sustainability: Applying the head, heart,
and hands model in climate change and health education
24. Educating climate change professionals about healthcare and disability
with a focus on system dynamics and social systems design
25. Communicating effectively about climate change-Political considerations
V: Climate change from the lens of rehabilitation disciplines
26. Climate change and physiotherapy
27. Climate change and occupational therapy
28. Climate change and speech language pathology
29. Climate change and rehabilitation psychology
30. Climate change and rehabilitation nursing
31. Climate change and physical medicine & rehabilitation
VI: Advocacy
32. Disability rights and climate change: A view from the field
33. Planetary health and disability inclusion: A perspective
34. Disability climate justice in the courts: Strategies for harnessing
disability-specific legal protections to catalyze disability-inclusive
climate action
35. The uneven landscape of disability around the world: A view from the
field
VII: Action and research on the impacts of climate change
36. Climate change and disaster rehabilitation
37. Rain, floods, and landslides
38. Cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons
39. Droughts, wildfires, and extreme heat
40. Extreme cold spells and related concerns
VIII: Pictures from the field
41. Climate change and persons with disabilities in the Mediterranean
Region
42. Climate change and persons with disabilities in Africa
43. Climate change and persons with disabilities in Asia
44. Climate change and persons with disabilities in South and Central
America
45. Climate change and persons with disabilities in the Caribbean and Small
Island Developing States
46. Pictures from the field: North America
47. Climate change and persons with disabilities in Australasia
IX: Long-term research and solutions regarding climate change and health
48. The built environment: Solutions for living in a world impacted by
climate change
49. The impact of nutrition on disability and climate change
50. Modeling the health impacts of climate change on people with
disabilities: A complex adaptive systems perspective
51. Sustainability in rehabilitation systems of care and practices
52. Day for tomorrow: Community can conquer climate change
53. The future
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