use of wood biomass for businesses, and small communities production of energy Human health Planned adaptation to the health impacts of climate change comprises a broad range of public health interventions (also see Sector Assessment Report Successful Appendix 5). – planned adaptation depends on an awareness of and information about the problem, on the existence of effective response strategies, and on the availability of the resources, information, and incentives to implement them. The main challenges in developing adaptation strategies for human health are to account for the diversity of health impairments, regional conditions, and adaptation actors, and for the large uncertainty about future changes in most health risks. Adaptation options outlined in include those for enhancing Table 6 governance, building the knowledge base and awareness, and adapting the external environment to reduce health impacts of climate change. Table 6. Summary of human health adaptation options Strategic Objective Type of Option Examples Policy, legal, and Development of National Strategy and institutional framework Action Plan on health and climate change Administrative, Establishment of inter-disciplinary climate infrastructure, change and human health (CCHH) WG to Enhance governance communication, financial, provide communication, coordination, for adaptation and technical capacity initiation, control, updating, and so on. Thematic workshops, lectures, and training Professional capacity on the health effects from climate change for all professionals and stakeholders Public education and Multimedia campaign on CCHH awareness on adaptation Build knowledge base Monitoring, data collecting, Build national monitoring and early warning and awareness for and early warning system for CCHH adaptation Research and knowledge Assessing health vulnerability at the national base and local level Adapting built and natural Development of concept and guidelines for environment to reduce adjustment of public built environment to health impact of climate Adapt external climate change. change environment to reduce health impacts of Development register of groups vulnerable to climate change climate change at the national and local level Socioeconomic capacity and special program for work with these groups Tourism Adaptation options proposed for tourism are based on the assessment of risk and vulnerability and the policy context as presented in the Sector Assessment Report (see and outlined in Chapters 1 and 2. These are summarized in and cover Appendix 6) Table 7
use of wood biomass for production of energy businesses, and small communities Human health Planned adaptation to the health impacts of climate change comprises a broad range of public health interventions (also see Sector Assessment Report – Appendix 5). Successful planned adaptation depends on an awareness of and information about the problem, on the existence of effective response strategies, and on the availability of the resources, information, and incentives to implement them. The main challenges in developing adaptation strategies for human health are to account for the diversity of health impairments, regional conditions, and adaptation actors, and for the large uncertainty about future changes in most health risks. Adaptation options outlined in Table 6 include those for enhancing governance, building the knowledge base and awareness, and adapting the external environment to reduce health impacts of climate change. Table 6. Summary of human health adaptation options Strategic Objective Type of Option Examples Enhance governance for adaptation Policy, legal, and institutional framework Development of National Strategy and Action Plan on health and climate change Administrative, infrastructure, communication, financial, and technical capacity Establishment of inter-disciplinary climate change and human health (CCHH) WG to provide communication, coordination, initiation, control, updating, and so on. Professional capacity Thematic workshops, lectures, and training on the health effects from climate change for all professionals and stakeholders Build knowledge base and awareness for adaptation Public education and awareness on adaptation Multimedia campaign on CCHH Monitoring, data collecting, and early warning Build national monitoring and early warning system for CCHH Research and knowledge base Assessing health vulnerability at the national and local level Adapt external environment to reduce health impacts of climate change Adapting built and natural environment to reduce health impact of climate change Development of concept and guidelines for adjustment of public built environment to climate change. Socioeconomic capacity Development register of groups vulnerable to climate change at the national and local level and special program for work with these groups Tourism Adaptation options proposed for tourism are based on the assessment of risk and vulnerability and the policy context as presented in the Sector Assessment Report (see Appendix 6) and outlined in Chapters 1 and 2. These are summarized in Table 7 and cover