Efnisyfirlit

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • A Critical Juncture in Human History
  • Where There’s a Will, There May Be a Way: An Overview of Global Action on the Social Determinants of Health and on Climate Change
  • The Story
  • Issues the Book Does Not Address
• 1. Climate Change, Global Justice, and Health Inequities
  • Status Update on Global Environmental Change
  • A Focus on Climate Change
  • Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Environmental Impacts of Climate Change
    • Extreme Weather Events and Alterations in Hydrological Systems
    • Sea Level Rise
    • Increasing Ocean Acidity
    • Species Extinction
    • Food Insecurity
  • Climate Change—A Global Justice Issue
    • Causal Responsibility, Future Development Rights, and the Unequal Distribution of Climate Change Harms
    • Structural Injustice in Climate Change Negotiations
    • Intergenerational Inequity
  • Health Inequity—What We Know So Far
    • A Brief Status Update on Health Inequities within and between Countries
    • Understanding the Social Determinants of Health Inequity
    • Evolution of the Eco-Social Model of Health
  • Climate Change—Exacerbating Existing Health Inequities
    • Health Inequities and Extreme Weather Events
    • Rising Sea Levels and Health Inequities
    • Heat Stress and Health Inequities
    • Pathways to Health Inequities from Environments Hospitable to Vector-Borne Diseases
    • Climate Change–Related Inequities in Availability and Affordability of Nutritious Food
  • Concluding Remarks
• 2. It’s a Consumptagenic World: Producing Climate Change, Exacerbating Health Inequities
  • Introduction
  • Fossil-Fueled Growth—The Backbone of Consumptagenic Systems
    • Consumptagenic Societies
    • The Spread of Market-Based Economies
    • Pricing Regimes and the Promotion of Cheap “Luxury” Goods
  • Consumptagenic Food Systems and Their Cultivation of Consumptagenic Societies
    • Evolution and Dominance of the Industrial Food System
    • Price Drivers of Inequity within the Industrial Food System
  • Emergent Environmental and Health Properties of the Industrial Food System
    • Eating Earth
    • Eating Oil
    • Death by Chocolate: Impact of the Industrial Food System on Human Health
    • Summary: The Industrial Food System, Climate Change, and Health Inequities
  • The Concrete Road to Freedom: Urbanization and the Consumptagenic System
    • Cities Are Killing the Planet and People, But How They Drive Climate Change Varies between Countries and within Cities
    • Urban Settlements as Determinants of Health Inequities
  • Cities, Climate Change, and Health Inequities
    • Heat, Living and Working Conditions, and Urban Health Inequities
    • Living the Coastal Dream: Risks to Urban Health Equity from Sea Level Rise and Storm Surges
    • City Living Inland: Flooding and Health Impacts
    • Summary: The Relationship between Urbanization, Climate Change, and Health Inequities
  • Concluding Remarks
• 3. Challenges and Future Prospects
  • Introduction
  • A Fit-for-Purpose Evidence Base
    • Thinking in Systems
    • Moving Beyond the Problem: A Focus on Politics, Policies, and Processes
  • Progressive Policy Systems
    • Policy for What Purpose?
    • What Does Progressive Policy Look Like?
    • Political Windows of Opportunity and Challenges to Progressive Action
    • Encountering Resistance
  • Conclusions
• References
• Index

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