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Building Capacity and Resilience Against Diseases Transmitted via Water Under Climate Perturbations and Extreme Weather Stress

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14211/
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-21938-3_24
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21938-3_24
 
Title Building Capacity and Resilience Against Diseases Transmitted via Water Under Climate Perturbations and Extreme Weather Stress
 
Creator Sathyendranath, Shubha
Abdulaziz, Anas
Menon, Nandini
George, Grinson
Evers-King, Hayley
Kulk, Gemma
Colwell, Rita
Jutla, Antarpreet
Platt, Trevor
 
Subject Climate change
 
Description It is now generally accepted that climate variability and change, occurrences of extreme weather events, urbanisation and human pressures on the environment, and high mobility of human populations, all contribute to the spread of pathogens and to outbreaks of water-borne and vector-borne diseases such as cholera and malaria. The threats are heightened by natural disasters such as floods, droughts, earth-quakes that disrupt sanitation facilities. Aligned against these risks are the laudable Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations dealing with health, climate, life below water, and reduced inequalities. Rising to the challenges posed by these goals requires an integrated approach bringing together various scientific disciplines that deal with parts of the problem, and also the various stakeholders including the populations at risk, local governing bodies, health workers, medical professionals, international organisations, charities, and non-governmental organisations. Satellite-based instruments capable of monitoring various properties of the aquatic ecosystems and the environs have important contributions to make in this context. In this chapter, we present two case studies—the Ganga Delta region and the Vembanad Lake region in south-western India—to illustrate some of the benefits that remote sensing can bring to address the problem of global health, and use these examples to identify the capacity building that is essential to maximise the exploitation of the remote sensing potential in this context.
 
Publisher Springer
 
Date 2020
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14211/1/Space%20Capacity%20Building%20in%20the%20XXI%20Century_2020_Grinson%20George.pdf
Sathyendranath, Shubha and Abdulaziz, Anas and Menon, Nandini and George, Grinson and Evers-King, Hayley and Kulk, Gemma and Colwell, Rita and Jutla, Antarpreet and Platt, Trevor (2020) Building Capacity and Resilience Against Diseases Transmitted via Water Under Climate Perturbations and Extreme Weather Stress. In: Space Capacity Building in the XXI Century. Springer, pp. 281-298. ISBN 978-3-030-21937-6