Climate change, health, and conflict in Africa's arc of instability

Evans, M S and Munslow, Barry (2021) 'Climate change, health, and conflict in Africa's arc of instability'. Perspectives in public health, Vol 141, Issue 6, pp. 338-341.

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Abstract

Climate change lies at the heart of many complex humanitarian emergencies and emerging global health challenges, with Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) identified as one of the most vulnerable regions to the impacts of climate change.1 An arc stretching from Somalia and Eritrea in the east to Mauritania in the west forms a band of countries that are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change (Figure 1).2 This arc experiences a devastating combination of state fragmentation, Islamist insurgency, and climate change, undermining livelihood strategies across the region. A climate injustice exists; despite contributing relatively little to the anthropogenic causes of climate change, individuals living in these countries face the most severe impacts

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	WA Public Health > Preventive Medicine > WA 240 Disinfection. Disinfestation. Pesticides (including diseases caused by) WA Public Health > WA 30.2 Climate Change WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 395 Health in developing countries WB Practice of Medicine > Medical Climatology > WB 700 Medical climatology. Geography of disease
Faculty: Department:	Education
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139211058299
SWORD Depositor:	JISC Pubrouter
Depositing User:	Stacy Murtagh
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2021 12:38
Last Modified:	08 Oct 2024 12:38
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/19548

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