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Climate Change, Public Health, and Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific. From Mitigation to Adaptation

  • Book

  • January 2026
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 6250136

Climate Change, Public Health, and Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific: From Mitigation to Adaptation addresses the absence of solutions to looming and inevitable regional security, health, and environmental threats. To date, there has not been a comprehensive solution-based focus on climate change in the region that includes subjects such as acceptance of the consequences; implications for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief; the role of defense forces in managing migration, climate refugees, infectious diseases, and related issues such as flooding or land use change; and a further focus on climate change and implications for public health in the Indo-Pacific. This book addresses these issues and provides strategies for those living and working in the region. Written by regional experts for public health, security, and climate change practitioners, researchers and experts, as well as regional and international policymakers and opinion leaders in the area.

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Table of Contents

  1. The imperative of Green One Health: a vision for climate and health resilience and sustainability
  2. Exploring the environmental security domain: toward a new security paradigm?
  3. Accepting climate change and public health threats: bowing to the inevitable
  4. Introduction: climate change and public health threats-threat multipliers to resilience in the Indo-Pacific
  5. Climate diplomacy in a competitive Indo-Pacific: accepting climate realities, adapting to change, and strengthening resilience
  6. New considerations for Indo-Pacific climate and health security: conflict, resilience, and nontraditional security dynamics
  7. Slow emergencies, noncommunicable diseases and climate induced health injustice
  8. Climate and health security in the Indo-Pacific: developing convergent interventions
  9. Pathways to Resilience Aligning Health, Climate, and Communities in the Asia-Pacific
  10. Climate change and public health: the implications for defense forces in the Indo-Pacific
  11. And the heat goes on: unprecedented global heating trends mandate urgent action to ensure Indo-Pacific security
  12. Is South Asia concerned about environmental security? Maybe not enough!
  13. China and climate change as compound challenges to Taiwan’s national security
  14. Implications of climate change for the Armed Forces of Honduras: Challenges, constitutional mandates, and strategic responses
  15. Climate change and the military
  16. Climate frontlines: implications for air operations and security in a warming world
  17. Climate and health diplomacy and great power competition in the Indo-Pacific: a pivotal regional force
  18. China’s complex approach to climate security: implications for the Indo-Pacific
  19. Climate change, health security, and regional stability in the Indo-Pacific: Japan’s potential role in addressing interconnected challenges
  20. Strengthening United States-Japan bilateral cooperation on climate change toward a net-zero world
  21. Climate change, human securities, and their relationships
  22. Climate and health threats as unifying regional forces in the Indo-Pacific
  23. The implications of climate and public health concerns for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the Indo-Pacific: regional security considerations
  24. Climate change and Philippine public safety strategies
  25. Climate change under human rights lens
  26. Hurricane season and war: the modern stragetic planning implications of hurricanes and typhoons
  27. Healing after the storm. Relational health and humanitarian response in a changing Pacific
  28. Climate and health security versus regional security: the key importance of Indo-Pacific community perspectives
  29. Climate change and adaptive health systems
  30. Human security and exclusionary conservation: rethinking conservation governance in Europe’s Danube Delta and the Indo-Pacific
  31. Marshallese migration from Enewetak Atoll to Hawai’i
  32. Climate, health, and human security: refugees and regional displacement
  33. National and regional climate and health threats and individual responses: how behavior change contributes to macro-level resilience solutions
  34. Preparedness against the psychological implications of climate change and natural disasters on cancer patients and caregivers
  35. The impact of heat waves on the mental health and well-being of young adults in rural Lahore, Pakistan
  36. Women under the weather: how climate change affects women’s sexual and reproductive health
  37. How consumerism consumes us: interconnections between consumerism, climate change, and public health
  38. The interconnected crisis: climate change and obesity in a changing world
  39. The intertwined crises of climate change and childhood obesity: a systematic review
  40. The rising tide within, mental health and wellbeing in a climate-challenged Pacific
  41. Climate, health, and energy security in the Indo-Pacific: balances between competing regional security priorities
  42. Climate-resilient cybersecurity: protecting data centers from extreme weather threats
  43. Environmentalism, natural resources, and the Indo-Pacific economy: the climate and health challenges
  44. Political perspectives on climate change policy in New Zealand: implications for regional security in the Indo-Pacific
  45. Climate and health security versus economic security: trade-offs and solutions in the Indo-Pacific

Authors

Sebastian Kevany Professor, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Combining extensive professional experience in diplomacy, international security, development, public health, and climate change, Sebastian Kevany has conducted over 100 field missions to Africa, the Middle East, the South Pacific, Eastern Europe, and Asia with a focus on monitoring and evaluation, health security, international relations, human rights, and international security and governance. He is the author of two books on global diplomacy, security, and health; has published over 100 peer-reviewed academic articles on related issues; and holds BA and MA degrees from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland); an MPH degree from the University of Cape Town (South Africa); a doctorate by life research from the University of Westminster (United Kingdom).