Climate Change and Disability
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-443-31568-8 (ISBN)
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.
Marcalee Alexander, MD is a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. A graduate of Jefferson Medical College, she is a Past-President of the American SCI Association. In 2019, to motivate rehabilitation professionals and persons with disabilities to take action regarding climate change, she began a walk from Canada to Key West to educate people about disasters, disability and climate change and the need for an accessible, health-promoting environment. In 2020, she paused the walk due to Covid19. Concomitantly, she founded the 501C3 Sustain Our Abilities, whose mission is to educate people about climate change, disability and health. Dr. Alexander also is founding Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Climate Change and Health and is organizing Climate and Health 2023, a hybrid international meeting. Her walk, now named the Graham-Green Route Aiding Health Adaptation will resume 2/24/24 and she has created a Healthy Living Space petition as part of this journey. Dr. Alexandra Fogarty is a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation physician with specialty training in Sports Medicine and Pain Management. After graduating from Bowdoin College in Maine, she attended Saba University School of Medicine in the Netherlands and earned her MD degree. She completed Internship, Residency and fellowship in PM&R and Sports Medicine at Washington University in Saint Louis, where she served as Academic Chief Resident. She then completed a Pain Medicine Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Fogarty is now an Assistant Professor in the department of PM&R at the University of Utah.She has also served in several prominent leadership roles, including with the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society (IPSIS), where she serves as a member of the board of directors and chair of the Sustainability Task Force, whose goal is to foster awareness of the relationship between human health and the environment. Carl Froilan D. Leochico, MD, FPARM is a physiatrist from the Philippines who completed his fellowships in Brain Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Brain Rehabilitation at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute in Ontario, Canada. He was recently appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine and as a physiatrist as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. His research interests include telerehabilitation and its manifold applications and benefits, including environmental stewardship. He is among the telerehabilitation pioneers in the Philippines and led the development of their national telerehabilitation guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the Secretary of the Telerehabilitation Special Interest Group of the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation, a member of the Toronto Telerehabilitation Working Group, and has been a part of the Sustain Our Abilities focusing on public engagement regarding climate change, health and disparities.
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
Climate Change Resources
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | San Diego |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 450 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-443-31568-X / 044331568X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-443-31568-8 / 9780443315688 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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