Climate Change and Disability - A Collaborative Approach to a Sustainable Future

Until recently, little attention has been paid to the plight of persons with disabilities during extreme weather events and/or natural disasters. Little attention has also been paid to the special needs of children with disabilities growing up in a changing world and the elderly who may rely on others for their day-to-day needs. Climate Change and Disability: A Collaborative Approach to a Sustainable Future delineates the general and specific risks of climate change for persons with disabilities and how we can use accessible approaches to mitigate, adapt and control these risks, while maximizing opportunities for persons living with disabilities. The book opens with an introduction on how we got here. The next chapters cover the framework for research and policy, the physiologic impact of different disabilities, and an overview of specific continents and countries; where hot issues related to climate change exist. Education and advocacy are covered in detail, and the book wraps up with a section on action and research, detailing how to respond to extreme weather events, including how various types of disabilities are impacted by different events. Climate Change and Disability: A Collaborative Approach to a Sustainable Future serves as a guide for a broad audience at the crossroads of environmental adaptation and human health. Rehabilitation physicians as well as physical and occupational therapists will find it valuable for tailoring care for people with disabilities due to climate change. Advocates and individuals with disabilities will gain insight into advocacy for inclusive policies and personal preparedness. Physicians and social scientists interested in the health and societal impacts of climate change will find it useful in informing their practices and research. Policymakers and politicians can utilize this resource to develop equitable climate strategies, ensuring that environmental justice includes those who are most vulnerable.

Sommario

1. How to Use This Book
2. Climate Change 101: The basics of climate change
3. Climate and Health: What is the connection?

A Framework for Clinical Care, Research, and Policy Development
4. The Need for New Paradigms to Assess and Respond to the Impact of Climate Change on Disability
5. Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and Disability
6. Women, Climate Change and Disability
7. Youth, Climate Change and Disability
8. Environmental Racism: From Theory to Praxis
9. Double Jeopardy: How Climate Change Affects Sexual and Gender Diverse Individuals with Disabilities
10. Religion, Spirituality and Climate Change

What to Expect Related to Climate Change and Specific Disabilities
11. Climate Change and the Profound Disabilities (SCI, MS, ALS )
12. Climate Change and Pediatric Disabilities
13. Climate Change, Older Adults, and People with Chronic Illness
14. Climate Change and Autism Spectrum Disorders
15. Climate Change and Chronic Pain
16. Climate Change, Arthritis and Musculoskeletal disorders
17. Climate Change and Traumatic and Nontraumatic Brain Disorders
18. Climate Change and Hearing Disorders
19. Climate Change and Visual Disorders
20. Climate Change and Psychiatric Disabilities
21. Climate Change, Sports Medicine, and the Adaptive Athlete

Education
22. Communicating about Climate Change and concerns related to disability
23. Educating health care and rehabilitation professionals about climate change and disability
24. Educating climate change professionals about healthcare and disability
25. Political Considerations

Climate Change from the Lens of Rehabilitation Disciplines
26. Climate Change and Physiotherapy
27. Climate Change and Occupational Therapy
28. Climate Change and Speech Therapy
29. Climate Change and Rehabilitation Psychology
30. Climate Change and Rehabilitation Nursing
31. Climate Change and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Advocacy
32. Disability Rights and Climate Change: A View from the field
33. PLANETARY HEALTH, CLIMATE AND DISABILITY
34. Disability-inclusive climate litigation
35. The Uneven Landscape of Disability Around the World

Action and Research on the Immediate Effects of Climate Change
36. An overview of climate change and disaster rehabilitation
37. Climate Change and the Rising Threat of Water Emergencies
38. Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons
39. Drought and wildfires
40. Extreme Cold Spells and Related Concerns

Pictures from the Field
41. The Mediterranean
42. Africa
43. Asia
44. South America
45. The Caribbean and Small Island States
46. North America
47. Australasia

Long Term Research and Solutions
48. The Built Environment: Solutions for Living in a World impacted by Climate Change
49. Diet and it's impact on climate change
50. Climate Change Modeling and how it can be used for persons with disabilities
51. Sustainability in Rehabilitation Systems of Care and Practices
52. Recommendations for the Future
53. Day for Tomorrow

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Marcalee Alexander (Editore), Alexandra E. Fogarty (Editore), Carl Froilan D. Leochico (Editore)
• Editore: Elsevier
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.10.2025
• EAN: 9780443315688
• ISBN: 978-0-443-31568-8
• Peso: 450 g
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Biology, life sciences, Life sciences: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability