Health dimensions
Andreas Neef, Thomas Brenner, Hanna Christiansen, Carol Farbotko, Danielle Heinrichs Henry, Monique Lewis, Ann-Christine Link, Johanna Nalau, Silvia Pernice-Warnke, Juliet Pietsch, Jamie Ranse, Antje Röder, Shannon Rutherford, Ivo Steimanis, Samid Suliman, Björn Vollan
Abstract
This article outlines an interdisciplinary research agenda in the nexus of climate change, extreme weather, human im/mobility and public health. We identify four research themes. First, climate im/mobility and health narratives, where research is needed on how competing narratives are adopted by citizens and how these influence their attitudes towards climate im/mobile groups, while also giving a stronger voice for these groups to tell their own stories; second, legal and policy frameworks for health and wellbeing of im/mobile groups, where the lack of legal recognition and the rise of anti-migration political and societal movements raise new research questions on how such concepts as climate mobility justice can be effectively deployed to safeguard health and wellbeing of climate im/mobile groups; third, health implications of im/mobility decision-making and action, which calls for integrated research across scales -- from government and community to the individual -- and recognition of wellbeing and ontological security needs among Indigenous people; and, finally, health and care system preparedness, which highlights the need for culturally sensitive health communication in climate disaster contexts and the urgency of determining the health needs of particularly vulnerable groups among displaced populations.