Healthy Ageing During the Climate Crisis
Highlighting Underrepresented Voices and Issues
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This book examines equity in healthy ageing during the climate crisis. It brings together diverse perspectives, theoretical models, and empirical evidence, with particular attention to emerging issues that connect experiences across the Global North and Global South. The volume foregrounds perspectives that are often underrepresented in discussions of sustainability and healthy ageing, bringing these viewpoints into dialogue to inform future policy development and research.
The book focuses on inequities and the impact of climate change on healthy ageing across a range of contexts and socioeconomic circumstances worldwide. Contributors address topics including health inequalities, menopause, policy, and sustainable ageing, offering new insights into the challenges of promoting healthy ageing in a changing climate.
The volume's 19 chapters are organized into three sections:
- Part I: Equity in Healthy Ageing Across Contexts and Groups
- Part II: Reframing Healthy Ageing in Response to Climate Change
- Part III: Barriers to Healthy Ageing During Climate Change
Healthy Ageing During the Climate Crisis: Highlighting Underrepresented Voices and Issues provides an important resource for researchers, students, lecturers, policymakers, and health and social care professionals and practitioners seeking evidence-based approaches to equitable and sustainable ageing. The book will also be of interest to readers in a range of sectors and fields including public health, health promotion, gerontology, and environmental studies.
Chapters 6 and 19 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License via link.springer.com.
This book examines equity in healthy ageing during the climate crisis. It brings together diverse perspectives, theoretical models, and empirical evidence, with particular attention to emerging issues that connect experiences across the Global North and Global South. The volume foregrounds perspectives that are often underrepresented in discussions of sustainability and healthy ageing, bringing these viewpoints into dialogue to inform future policy development and research.
The book focuses on inequities and the impact of climate change on healthy ageing across a range of contexts and socioeconomic circumstances worldwide. Contributors address topics including health inequalities, menopause, policy, and sustainable ageing, offering new insights into the challenges of promoting healthy ageing in a changing climate.
The volume's 19 chapters are organized into three sections:
- Part I: Equity in Healthy Ageing Across Contexts and Groups
- Part II: Reframing Healthy Ageing in Response to Climate Change
- Part III: Barriers to Healthy Ageing During Climate Change
Healthy Ageing During the Climate Crisis: Highlighting Underrepresented Voices and Issues provides an important resource for researchers, students, lecturers, policymakers, and health and social care professionals and practitioners seeking evidence-based approaches to equitable and sustainable ageing. The book will also be of interest to readers in a range of sectors and fields including public health, health promotion, gerontology, and environmental studies.
Chapters 6 and 19 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License via link.springer.com.
Is first-known book to address emerging issues like equity and menopausal transition in the sustainability-ageing debate Integrates Global North and South voices, providing a holistic perspective on healthy ageing during the climate crisis Features highly interdisciplinary and international authorship from over 30 countries and five continents
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Themen in »Healthy Ageing During the Climate Crisis«
Healthy ageing Sustainability Older adults Global North and Global South Public health Environmental health Policy Equity in sustainable ageing Assistive technologies for healthy ageing Extreme weather Age-friendly communities Climate anxiety Menopause transition as an ageing issue Older transgender individuals Rural and urban settings