Climate, Human Health, and Society

Call for Papers

The dynamic interaction between humans and the climate is a worldwide research focus, where relationships between climate, human health, and society are vital to understand, yet highly complex. Humans are both responders and drivers of the climate, on various spatial scales ranging from microclimatic to global. With climate scientists studying the effects of increasing greenhouse gases and temperatures in weather patterns, environmental epidemiologists are focused on understanding how these effects are impacting the health of humans. Further, the response of society to both atmospheric and health changes leads to political and economic adaptations. In order to develop practical solutions, research across and within many disciplines must be translated and integrated to best understand the science of a changing climate and its impacts on health and society.

We invite investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to understand the relationships and interaction between the atmospheric climate, human health, and society. We aim to bring together insightful and novel research linking interactions among the atmospheric environment related to climate change and human health at various temporal and spatial scales. We embrace basic and applied research and practical aspects that have a clear relationship to human health, such as atmospheric components relating to human mortality or morbidity. Interdisciplinary collaborations between meteorologists, health professionals, epidemiologists, climatologists, medical doctors, biometeorologists, and other scientists are encouraged. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Climate change and environmental degradation bioclimatic urban design use of resources
• Human physiological responses to natural and artificial atmospheric environments
• Urban heat islands and associated microclimates
• Heat- or cold-related mortality/morbidity
• Climate change and human health
• Human biometeorology
• Urban environments related to heat, air pollution, traffic emissions, and associated effects on society and health
• Atmospheric circulation patterns related to health and application to health warning systems
• Interactions between atmospheric variables (air temperature, wind, air humidity, radiation fluxes, air pollution, etc.) with human health and thermal comfort
• Epidemiological modeling using atmospheric inputs
• Multidisciplinary research in the areas of climate health
• Environmental health and epidemiologic studies
• Environmental sciences where human health and well-being are involved
• Vulnerable populations to heat, cold, air pollution, and extreme weather situations
• Climate and health applications to policy and associated societal and economic implications
• Development and promotion of health-policy guidelines to prevent the negative health impacts of climate change and extreme weather events

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/jeph/chhs/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Sabit Cakmak, Environmental Health Sciences Research Bureau, Population Studies Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0K9

Guest Editors

• Jennifer Vanos, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
• Aziz Khanchi, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
• Claudia Vidal Blanco, Facultad Economía y Negocios, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile