The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MDPI AG
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 787g
• ISBN-13: 9783036555041
• ISBN-10: 3036555048
• Artikelnr.: 69493511

Autorenporträt

Dr. Debra D. Joseph is the Coordinator and Lecturer of Social Work at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. She is also an Honorary Consultant Researcher with the Ni3 Centre at the University of Huddersfield, UK, an institution that addresses domestic violence. She is developing a body of work on the social impacts of climate change for vulnerable populations. This seeks to highlight, but is not confined to, the links between gender inequalities and climate change. Dr. Joseph has undertaken work in the areas of domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, women fisher folk, environmental sustainability, disasters, and climate change. Furthermore, she has completed studies of tropical Storm Erika-Dominica; Hurricane Maria-Dominica; and undertaken a Family Case Study and discussed the impact of female-headed households post-Hurricane Maia-Dominica. She received the "Jeremy Collymore Award for Research in Humanitarian Response and Disaster Risk Management" for the year 2019.