Climate, Vulnerability and Health
AvSheila Lakshmi Steinberg,William A. Sprigg
Del i serien Extreme Weather and Society
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- Utgivningsdatum:2025-03-01
- Mått:155 x 235 x 19 mm
- Vikt:604 g
- Format:Inbunden
- Språk:Engelska
- Serie:Extreme Weather and Society
- Antal sidor:237
- Upplaga:2
- Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
- ISBN:9783031770456
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Dr. Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg is Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Full Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at California State University Northridge. The theme throughout her research is people, place, culture and space across geographies. Dr. Steinberg’s research interests include environment, sustainability, community, research methods, environmental and social justice, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and policy. She developed an interested in weather, climate and society from living in so many different parts of the United States, including the West Coast, the East Coast and the mid-west. Recently she co-edited a book entitled, Resilient Communities Across Geographies for Esri Press (2021). Additionally, she co-edited Extreme Weather, Health and Communities: Interdisciplinary Engagement Strategies for Springer Press (2016). She is also the co-author of GIS for the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place (2006) for Sage Publications and GIS Research Methods: Incorporating Spatial Perspectives for Esri Press (2015). Steinberg is a keynote speaker at professional conferences and meetings having served as a panelist at the Esri UC Science Symposium and invited GIS Day speaker for The University of Miami (2022), the City University of New York-College of Staten Island (2021) and Kansas State University (2017). In 2016 she was invited as the keynote speaker at the European Sociological Association (ESA) Qualitative Methods Research Network Conference in Krakow, Poland spoke on GIS for community engagement & empowerment. Her research focuses on the connection between people, places and environments considering local knowledge, networks and the power of culture and community engagement to generate policy. Professor Emeritus, William A. Sprigg [Yale University (M.Phil., Ph.D.), Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (M.S.), Florida State University (B.S.) and U.S. Army Signal School (MOS)] is the Principal for Science Policy Consultants, LLC, Marana, Arizona. He is the architect of the U.S. National Climate Program (1978) and led the U.S. delegation (1990) for IPCC Working Group II (Impacts Assessment). He led the U.S. Congress-mandated Climate Assessment for the Southwestern U.S. (2000). He has held research and science policy positions in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. National Research Council, the California Public Health Institute, and in other nations’ atmosphere, climate and air quality programs. He formed Science Policy Consultants, LLC, in 2016 to assess and advise on states of science that affect client profit, progress and standing in the global community. Dr. Sprigg co-founded the Dust Alliance for North America and is a current member of its Executive Committee and chair of its Science Steering Committee. He is founding director (2010-2017) of the Pan America Center for the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory System. Professor Sprigg co-edited Extreme Weather, Health and Communities: Interdisciplinary Engagement Strategies for Springer Press (2016) and is Series Editor, Extreme Weather & Society, for Springer International Publishing, Switzerland. He served previously on the Encyclopedia Britannica’s Editorial Board (1999-2001), and on the Voice of America’s Cinetel Infectious Disease Media Project Board of Directors (1997-1999).
Innehållsförteckning
- 1 Living in the New Climate Normal.- 2 Community Impacts of Wildfire.- 3 Climate Change Engagement with Vulnerable People and Places.- 4 Extreme Storm Challenges.- 5 Pandemic and Climate Change Impacts on Supply Chain.- 6 Synergistic Vulnerabilities and COVID-19.- 7 Race, Place and Pandemic Social Vulnerability.- 8 Social Vulnerabilities and Community Responses in India.- 9 Sociospatial Modeling for Social Vulnerability.- 10 An Environmental Health Early Warning System.- 11 Policy, People and Place.
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