Climate Change and Disability

Name: Climate Change and Disability
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ISBN: 9780443315688

A Collaborative Approach to a Sustainable Future

by Marcalee Alexander, Alexandra E. Fogarty, Carl Froilan D. Leochico

1st Edition

Publisher: Academic Press

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Print ISBN	9780443315688
eText ISBN	9780443315695
Publisher	Academic Press
Publishing Year	2025
Edition	1st Edition
Language	English
Pages	458

Edited by Marcalee Alexander, Alexandra E. Fogarty, and Carl Froilan D. Leochico, the book Climate Change and Disability, 1st Edition, examines how changing environmental conditions create general and specific vulnerabilities for individuals living with disabilities. Published by Academic Press, this publication outlines accessible frameworks to mitigate, adapt to, and control environmental hazards while advancing opportunities for impacted groups.

The thematic progression explores the physiologic consequences of climate change across diverse health conditions, detailing specific impacts on individuals with spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Additional chapters assess environmental threats affecting pediatric populations, older adults, individuals with chronic illness, and those experiencing chronic pain or musculoskeletal health issues. The text also incorporates analyses of environmental racism and environmental justice to guide disability advocacy and inclusive policy formulation.

Designed as a resource for professional practice and policy analysis, this volume assists rehabilitation physicians, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, social scientists, policymakers, and environmental justice researchers in designing structured responses to environmental risks.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Climate change 101: The basics of climate change
Chapter 3: Climate change and health—What is the connection?
Chapter 4: The need for new paradigms to assess and respond to the impacts of climate change on disability
Chapter 5: Indigenous Peoples, climate change, and disability justice
Chapter 6: Climate change, gender, and disability
Chapter 7: Children, youth, climate change, and disability
Chapter 8: Environmental racism: From theory to praxis
Chapter 9: How climate change affects sexual and gender diverse individuals with disabilities
Chapter 10: Religion, spirituality, and climate change
Chapter 11: Climate change and the profound disabilities: Spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Chapter 12: Climate change and pediatric disabilities
Chapter 13: Climate change, older adults, and people with chronic illness
Chapter 14: Autism and climate change
Chapter 15: Climate change and chronic pain
Chapter 16: Climate change, arthritis, and musculoskeletal health considerations
Chapter 17: Climate change and traumatic and nontraumatic brain disorders in adults
Chapter 18: Climate change and hearing disabilities
Chapter 19: Climate change and visual disability
Chapter 20: Climate change and psychiatric disability
Chapter 21: Climate change, sports medicine, and the adaptive athlete
Chapter 22: Communicating about climate change and concerns related to disability
Chapter 23: Transformative learning for sustainability: Applying the head, heart, and hands model in climate change and health education
Chapter 24: Educating climate change professionals about healthcare and disability with a focus on system dynamics and social systems design
Chapter 25: Communicating effectively about climate change—Political considerations
Chapter 26: Climate change and physiotherapy
Chapter 27: Climate change and occupational therapy
Chapter 28: Climate change and speech language pathology
Chapter 29: Climate change and rehabilitation psychology
Chapter 30: Climate change and rehabilitation nursing
Chapter 31: Climate change and physical medicine & rehabilitation
Chapter 32: Disability rights and climate change: A view from the field
Chapter 33: Planetary health and disability inclusion: A perspective
Chapter 34: Disability climate justice in the courts: Strategies for harnessing disability-specific legal protections to catalyze disability-inclusive climate action
Chapter 35: The uneven landscape of disability around the world: A view from the field
Chapter 36: Climate change and disaster rehabilitation
Chapter 37: Rain, floods, and landslides
Chapter 38: Cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons
Chapter 39: Droughts, wildfires, and extreme heat
Chapter 40: Extreme cold spells and related concerns
Chapter 41: Climate change and persons with disabilities in the Mediterranean Region
Chapter 42: Climate change and persons with disabilities in Africa
Chapter 43: Climate change and persons with disabilities in Asia
Chapter 44: Climate change and persons with disabilities in South and Central America
Chapter 45: Climate change and persons with disabilities in the Caribbean and Small Island Developing States
Chapter 46: Pictures from the field: North America
Chapter 47: Climate change and persons with disabilities in Australasia
Chapter 48: The built environment: Solutions for living in a world impacted by climate change
Chapter 49: The impact of nutrition on disability and climate change
Chapter 50: Modeling the health impacts of climate change on people with disabilities: A complex adaptive systems perspective
Chapter 51: Sustainability in rehabilitation systems of care and practices
Chapter 52: Day for tomorrow: Community can conquer climate change
Chapter 53: The future