Book contents
- Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law
- Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Foreword
- Part I The Context
- Part II Cross-Cutting Issues
- Part III Impacts and Interventions
- Part IV Interplay with International & Domestic Environmental Law
- 12 International Institutions and the Developing World
- 13 How Existing Environmental Laws Respond to Climate Change and Its Mitigation
- 14 Incorporating Public Health Assessments into Climate Change Action
- Index
14 - Incorporating Public Health Assessments into Climate Change Action
from Part IV - Interplay with International & Domestic Environmental Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2018
- Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law
- Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Foreword
- Part I The Context
- Part II Cross-Cutting Issues
- Part III Impacts and Interventions
- Part IV Interplay with International & Domestic Environmental Law
- 12 International Institutions and the Developing World
- 13 How Existing Environmental Laws Respond to Climate Change and Its Mitigation
- 14 Incorporating Public Health Assessments into Climate Change Action
- Index
Summary
As policy makers weigh cost-benefit and risk-risk tradeoffs in their responses to climate change, they should factor public health impacts into their calculations. This chapter discusses how and where public health can be made a prominent criterion for decision making about climate change mitigation and adaptation. It describes the types of health-related considerations that would be relevant in the context of actions that are expressly intended as a response to climate change as well as actions that have unintended consequences related to climate change. It then identifies specific laws that require consideration of health impacts in the planning and decision-making processes for these types of actions. Finally, it identifies key gaps in the legal mandates for and institutional capacity to conduct climate change-related health assessments and presents recommendations on how to fill those gaps.
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- Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law , pp. 403 - 434Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018