Climate Change and Human Health in Nigeria  

作　　者：Esther Englama Tanimu Tubayini Zakariah 

出　　处：《Sociology Study》2013年第11期858-865,共8页

摘　　要：This paper investigates the impact of climate change on human health in Nigeria. The paper relies on secondary data, sourced from journals, government documents and private individuals. From these sources the paper discovered that climate change poses a wide range of health risks to human health which include direct effects on human health resulting from increase in temperature and amplified air pollution that increase in temperature needs high incidence of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dysentery and cholera among others. Climate change also leads to rising sea levels which contaminates coastal fresh water and makes low-lying areas vulnerable to flooding. Flooding results in frequent incidences of malaria, cholera, typhoid to mention but few. It also leads to the displacement of people and resource conflicts, e.g., land and water, and post-disaster mental health problem. Finally the paper suggests that after flooding, affected settlements should be fumigated before people pack tack in order to reduce the incidences of cholera, malaria and dysentery among others, and that to reduce the discharge of carbon into the atmosphere alternative source of energy to fuel wood, must be put in place by the government.

关 键 词：Climate change human health greenhouse gases （GHG） greenhouse effect （GHE） 

分 类 号：X503.1[环境科学与工程—环境工程] P467[天文地球—大气科学及气象学]