ΠΜΣ Περιβάλλον και Υγεία. Διαχείριση Περιβαλλοντικών Θεμάτων με Επιπτώσεις στην Υγεία
Library of the School of Health Sciences

2017-01-17

2016

Bassakali Ekaterini

Πολυξένη Νικολοπούλου-Σταμάτη, Καθηγήτρια Ιατρικής Σχολής, ΕΚΠΑ
Καβαντζάς Νικόλαος, Καθηγητής Ιατρικής Σχολής, ΕΚΠΑ
Μπάλιας Γεώργιος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Χαροκόπειο Πανεπιστήμιο

Κλιματική Αλλαγή και Μετανάστευση: Η συμβολή της κλιματικής αλλαγής στις μεταναστευτικές ροές από τη Μέση Ανατολή και την Αφρική προς την Ελλάδα, τη Μεσόγειο και την ΕΕ. Πώς επηρεάζεται από την κλιματική αλλαγή και την αναγκαστική μετανάστευση η κατάσταση της υγείας των μετακινούμενων πληθυσμών;"

Greek

Climate Change and Migration: The role of climate change in pushing current migration flows from MENA countries and South Asia to the Mediterranean Sea, Greece and the EU. Health risks and health outcomes associated with climate change and forced migration.

Greece, a Euro-Mediterranean country has recently become a crowded gate for more than a million refugees-migrants from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Bangladesh and other MENA and asiatic countries, striving to reach the European Union. Academic research, country by country case-studies and refugees testimonies, along with scientific evidence of rapid climate progress and other related socio-economic trends at the afore-mentioned countries of origin, suggest that climate change may indeed, be responsible for some part of the recent unprecedented migration flows (2014-2016). Even though "climate refugees" and "climate migration" is still debated in politics, the role of c.c. in migration patterns and human systems should be better understood and advocated, in order to prevent more humanitarian and environmental catastrophies. The academia should also be more attentive to the health aspects of climate change and migration, as health risks arise at all stages of forcible movement. These risks should be prevented both, for the benefit of people on the move and for the sake of societies that foster migrant populations.

Environment and public health

Humanitarian law
Medical Anthropology

Climate change, MENA countries, Greece, Syria, EU, Civil war, Slow onset phenomena, Droughts, Climate refugees, Forced migration, Health risks and health problems, Human rights, National security, Violent conflicts, Consequences on human development, Environmental health, Disease, Camps, Public health

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