The Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Research Programme (CHIRP) at Leeds is based in the Priestly International Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds. CHIRP@LEEDS is a joint collaboration across the climate and global health themes, and partners the Leeds School of Earth and Environment, and the Leeds Institute for Health Sciences, including the Nuffield Centre for Global Health and Development. Led by Professor Lea Berrang-Ford, the programme integrates interdisciplinary expertise across Leeds faculties, including strengths in public health, epidemiology, medicine, engineering, climate science, nutrition, and geography.
The Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec (INSPQ) just wrote a blog post about our recently published article "Public Health Adaptation to Climate Change in Canadian Jurisdictions"
Austin, S.E.; Ford, J.D.; Berrang-Ford, L.; Araos, M.; Parker, S.; Fleury, M.D. Public Health Adaptation to Climate Change in Canadian Jurisdictions. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2015, 12, 623-651. Lesnikowski, A.C., Ford, J.D., Berrang-Ford, L., Barrera, M., and Jody Heymann. (2015). Find PDF here. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change.
Abstract: This paper applies a systematic approach to measuring adaptation actions being undertaken by 117 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with the goal of establishing a baseline of global trends in adaptation. Data are systematically collected from National Communications prepared by Parties to the Convention and submitted periodically to the Secretariat. 4,104 discrete adaptation initiatives are identified and analyzed. Our findings indicate that while progress is being made on conducting impact and vulnerability assessments and adaptation research in nearly every country in the sample, translation of this knowledge into tangible adaptation initiatives is still limited. The largest number of reported adaptations falls under the category of infrastructure, technology, and innovation. Some types of vulnerability were more frequently reported across initiatives, including floods, drought, food and water safety and security, rainfall, infectious disease, and terrestrial ecosystem health. Notably, reporting on the inclusion of vulnerable sub-populations is low across all actions. Diffusion of adaptation across sectors remains underdeveloped, with the environment, water, and agricultural sectors emerging as the most active adaptors. Our analysis indicates that national communications provide a valuable source of information for global-scale adaptation tracking, but important gaps exist in the consistency of reporting that should be addressed, as these documents could greatly enhance efforts to monitor and evaluate adaptation progress. TRAC3 was launched in 2014 to link a growing network of researchers working to advance approaches for tracking progress on adaption to the impacts of climate change.TRAC3 was created to facilitate new collaborations that address conceptual, methodological, and practical challenges associated with tracking progress on adaptation around the world. TRAC3 was founded by Dr. Lea Berrang-Ford and Dr. James Ford, Associate Professors in the department of Geography at McGill University, and Dr. Robbert Biesbroek, Assistant Professor in the department of Social Sciences at Wageningen University (Netherlands).
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