Climate change and women's health: Impacts and policy directions

Sorensen, Cecilia; Murray, Virginia; Lemery, Jay; Balbus, John

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002603

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“…In addition, greater participation by women in the decision-making process has been shown to increase compliance (Agarwal, 2009) and has the potential to support increased equity among resource users (Gallardo-Fernández and Saunders, 2018). Critically, there are increasing risks to health and livelihood among disenfranchised groups (often including women), as climate change increases the rate and intensity of natural disasters (Morioka, 2016;McLeod et al, 2018;Sorensen et al, 2018). Studies aimed at better understanding the role of women, as well as other disenfranchised groups, in sustainable resource management, as well as how to best promote more inclusive management will provide necessary insight toward the co-development of environmental and social strategies moving forward.…”

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Research Priorities for Achieving Healthy Marine Ecosystems and Human Communities in a Changing Climate

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Friedman et al. Priority Research Healthy Marine Systems major social and ecological events over the past 60 years that shaped current human relationships with coasts and oceans. We then used a modified Delphi approach to identify nine priority research areas and 46 questions focused on increasing sustainability and well-being in marine social-ecological systems. The research areas we identified include relationships between ecological and human health, access to resources, equity, governance, economics, resilience, and technology. Most questions require increased collaboration across traditionally distinct disciplines and sectors for successful study and implementation. By identifying these questions, we hope to facilitate the discourse, research, and policies needed to rapidly promote healthy marine ecosystems and the human communities that depend upon them.

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Research Priorities for Achieving Healthy Marine Ecosystems and Human Communities in a Changing Climate

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“…Ecofeminism is a political and philosophical theory and movement that connects the oppression of women with the oppression of nature (Gaard & Gruen 1993;Patrick 2019) through histories of masculine dominance, capitalist modes of production and colonialism (Federici 2004(Federici , 2018Shiva 2016). According to Gaard (2015), these mutually oppressing forces cannot be addressed in isolation, which is evidenced by how climate change is unequally affecting women's health: there is 'no climate justice without gender justice' (Terry 2009: 15; see also Sorensen et al 2018). Feminist philosophers consider the detrimental effects on physical and mental health from the subjugation of nature through a feminist lens (Rawes 2013) and argue that gender, ecology and health are fundamentally intertwined (Shiva 2016).…”

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Planetary health justice: feminist approaches to building in rural Kenya

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The planetary health concept describes the relations between health and climate. The inequities that connect these two domains are experienced most by low-resource and vulnerable populations, e.g. the impact of drought on subsistence livelihoods and associated mental health issues. Climate justice and health justice are framed through capabilities and integrated with ecofeminist approaches. Spatial justice is introduced as the ability to conceptualise how these interconnected injustices are mediated through environments. The integration of these theories can provide a justice-based planetary health approach that could overcome several barriers. Design and spatial practice offer processes and tools to understand the complexity of planetary health across scales, systems and relations; and to generate design solutions that promote equity and justice. Practical examples of Global South design projects are presented that connect health and climate. The example of a maternal health project in rural Kenya shows how a conceptual design framework for a justice-based planetary health can contribute to the planetary health. Practice relevance Global challenges of inequity are increasingly understood as complex and interconnected. The planetary health movement conceptualises a holistic view of the world incorporating an ecofeminist perspective. Addressing these challenges requires the ability to conceptualise interconnected injustices in climate and health and practical approaches, where participatory design processes can be useful. A conceptual framework can be used to design integrated solutions to planetary health injustices, relevant for built environment and development practitioners. The processes, tools and components of practice from the Global South are explored, which can be used to promote equity within the built environment.

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“…High temperatures can lead to reduced number of pregnancies due to increased fatigue and heat-related diseases (McMorris et al 2006;Bai et al 2014;Nybo et al 2014), reduced sexual desire (Markey and Markey 2013;Wilde et al 2017), deterioration of female reproductive health (Sorensen et al 2018), and decreased sperm count and quality (Levine et al 1990;Chen et al 2003;Levitas et al 2013;Mao et al 2017). Avoidance or lack of pregnancy because of hot weather decreases the number of newborns 9 months after a heat exposure event.…”

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Ambient temperature, birth rate, and birth outcomes: evidence from South Korea

Cho

2019

Popul Environ

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The effects from rising temperatures, a symptom of climate change, have become a significant concern. This study finds that one additional day with a maximum temperature of 30-32°C (86-89.6°F), relative to a day with a temperature of 28-30°C (82.4-86°F), decreases the birth rate 9 months later by 0.24%, or 92 babies per month in South Korea. This result is robust to various specifications and samples. This study also found that the impact of the temperature bin did not vary according to the mother's characteristics, including education and age. That is, high temperature has no differential effect on mothers of different backgrounds. Finally, we found no significant temperature effect on birth outcomes, but we cannot rule out that children born 9 months after summer heat are a selected (healthy) group.

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Climate change and women's health: Impacts and policy directions

Abstract: In a Policy Forum, Cecilia Sorensen and colleagues discuss the implications of climate change for women's health.

Cited by 119 publications

References 31 publications

Research Priorities for Achieving Healthy Marine Ecosystems and Human Communities in a Changing Climate

Research Priorities for Achieving Healthy Marine Ecosystems and Human Communities in a Changing Climate

Planetary health justice: feminist approaches to building in rural Kenya

Ambient temperature, birth rate, and birth outcomes: evidence from South Korea

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