Climate Change, Public Health, and Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific

From Mitigation to Adaptation

Sebastian Kevany

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443403699
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Climate Change, Public Health, and Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific: From Mitigation to Adaptation addresses the absence of solutions to looming and inevitable regional security, health, and environmental threats. To date, there has not been a comprehensive solution-based focus on climate change in the region that includes subjects such as acceptance of the consequences; implications for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief; the role of defense forces in managing migration, climate refugees, infectious diseases, and related issues such as flooding or land use change; and a further focus on climate change and implications for public health in the Indo-Pacific. This book addresses these issues and provides strategies for those living and working in the region. Written by regional experts for public health, security, and climate change practitioners, researchers and experts, as well as regional and international policymakers and opinion leaders in the area. - Explores climate change response strategies in a critical global region - Develops innovative response strategies to a key security issue - Describes evolving climate change threats first-hand from regional experts

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Climate Change, Public Health, and Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific: From Mitigation to Adaptation
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of contributors
• About the editor
• Acknowledgments
• 1 The imperative of Green One Health: a vision for climate and health resilience and sustainability
• 2 Exploring the environmental security domain: toward a new security paradigm?
• 3 Accepting climate change and public health threats: bowing to the inevitable
• 4 Introduction: climate change and public health threats—threat multipliers to resilience in the Indo-„Pacific
• 5 Climate diplomacy in a competitive Indo-Pacific: accepting climate realities, adapting to change, and strengthening resilience
• 6 New considerations for Indo-Pacific climate and health security: conflict, resilience, and nontraditional security dynamics
• 7 Slow emergencies, noncommunicable diseases and climate induced health injustice
• 8 Climate and health security in the Indo-Pacific: developing convergent interventions
• 9 Pathways to Resilience - Aligning Health, Climate, and Communities in the Asia-Pacific
• 10 Climate change and public health: the implications for defense forces in the Indo-Pacific
• 11 And the heat goes on: unprecedented global heating trends mandate urgent action to ensure Indo-Pacific security
• 12 Is South Asia concerned about environmental security? Maybe not enough!
• 13 China and climate change as compound challenges to Taiwan's national security
• 14 Implications of climate change for the Armed Forces of Honduras: Challenges, constitutional mandates, and strategic responses
• 15 Climate change and the military
• 16 Climate frontlines: implications for air operations and security in a warming world
• 17 Climate and health diplomacy and great power competition in the Indo-Pacific: a pivotal regional force
• 18 China's complex approach to climate security: implications for the Indo-Pacific
• 19 Climate change, health security, and regional stability in the Indo-Pacific: Japan's potential role in addressing interconnected challenges
• 20 Strengthening United States-Japan bilateral cooperation on climate change toward a net-zero world
• 21 Climate change, human securities, and their relationships
• 22 Climate and health threats as unifying regional forces in the Indo-Pacific
• 23 The implications of climate and public health concerns for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the Indo-Pacific: regional security considerations
• 24 Climate change and Philippine public safety strategies
• 25 Climate change under human rights lens
• 26 Hurricane season and war: the modern stragetic planning implications of hurricanes and typhoons
• 27 Healing after the storm. Relational health and humanitarian response in a changing Pacific
• 28 Climate and health security versus regional security: the key importance of Indo-Pacific community perspectives
• 29 Climate change and adaptive health systems
• 30 Human security and exclusionary conservation: rethinking conservation governance in Europe's Danube Delta and the Indo-Pacific
• 31 Marshallese migration from Enewetak Atoll to Hawai'i
• 32 Climate, health, and human security: refugees and regional displacement
• 33 National and regional climate and health threats and individual responses: how behavior change contributes to macro-level resilience solutions
• 34 Preparedness against the psychological implications of climate change and natural disasters on cancer patients and caregivers
• 35 The impact of heat waves on the mental health and well-being of young adults in rural Lahore, Pakistan
• 36 Women under the weather: how climate change affects women's sexual and reproductive health
• 37 How consumerism consumes us: interconnections between consumerism, climate change, and public health
• 38 The interconnected crisis: climate change and obesity in a changing world
• 39 The intertwined crises of climate change and childhood obesity: a systematic review
• 40 The rising tide within, mental health and wellbeing in a climate-challenged Pacific
• 41 Climate, health, and energy security in the Indo-Pacific: balances between competing regional security priorities
• 42 Climate-resilient cybersecurity: protecting data centers from extreme weather threats
• 43 Environmentalism, natural resources, and the Indo-Pacific economy: the climate and health challenges
• 44 Political perspectives on climate change policy in New Zealand: implications for regional security in the Indo-Pacific
• 45 Climate and health security versus economic security: trade-offs and solutions in the Indo-Pacific
• Appendix A: History of HADR in Indo-Pacific
• Appendix B: Between two shores
• Index
• Back Cover