MITIGATING AND ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: EVIDENCE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH

Climate change is an urgent existential challenge that poses serious health risks to species, populations, and ecosystems. More decisive action is required to accelerate human adaptation and mitigation responses across global regions - especially addressing disparities between the global North and South. Few studies have focused on projecting and quantifying the long-term impacts of climate change on environmental stressors. Integrated transformative change that will mitigate the causes and effects of a changing climate is no longer an option but a survival necessity.


This special issue aims to provide valuable insights for decision-makers to strengthen resilience and safeguard the health and well-being of people, place and the environment in response to climate change. This is a joint special issue of PHR and IJPH. For PHR, we invite high quality Reviews (all types) and Policy Briefs, and for IJPH we invite original articles (not reviews), on:

• Impacts of climate change on health systems
• Interactive population health effects caused by climate stressors
• Health consequences of conflicts and migration due to climate hazards, ecosystem degradation, and water shortage
• Effectiveness of risk mitigation and adaptation responses
• System reform (e.g. (inter)national networks, climate justice, integrated interventions, One Health education and research)
• Novel conceptual and methodological approaches to investigate the health and wellbeing impacts of climate change

The call is open for submission from November 1st 2023 until October 31st 2024. PHR and IJPH rules for double-blind peer review, article types, format and article processing charges (APC) apply. Please consult the PHR or IJPH websites.

The PHR and IJPH GLOBEQUITY program offers a limited number of waivers for first authors from low and middle-income countries (funded by swissuniversities, co-funded by SSPH+).
Articles accepted after peer review will be published in the online special issue approximately 3 weeks after acceptance.
Please submit the full manuscript.

Contact:
PHR Editorial Office: phr@swisstph.ch
IJPH Editorial Office: ijph@swisstph.ch

Keywords: Climate change, Climate stressors, Inequalities, Mitigation and adaptation actions, Climate policy coherence, Environmental management, One Health, Planetary Health, Innovative research paradigms