Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Public Health Practice: Using Adaptive Management to Increase Adaptive Capacity and Build Resilience
Author(s) -
Jeremy Hess,
Julia Z. McDowell,
George Luber
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1103515
Subject(s) - adaptive capacity , public health , psychological resilience , climate change , adaptation (eye) , adaptive management , environmental resource management , environmental planning , climate resilience , political science , geography , medicine , economics , psychology , ecology , social psychology , nursing , neuroscience , biology
Climate change is expected to have a range of health impacts, some of which are already apparent. Public health adaptation is imperative, but there has been little discussion of how to increase adaptive capacity and resilience in public health systems.
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