Climate action, reducing emissions and adapting to change, protects our health and future wellbeing, especially when we highlight and support the health benefits these actions bring.
This cross cutting interdisciplinary theme, led by the Institute for Life Sciences, the Sustainability and Resilience Institute and the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute, focuses on specific impacts of climate change on health and wellbeing. Our four focus areas generate data on potential impacts and consequences of strategies and interventions to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change on health.
Heat, cold, and humidity have a profound impact on our health and comfort. Better understanding how our body detects, responds and adapts to thermal stress is key to drive innovation in thermal protection, comfort and performance for all.
Novel and underutilised crops represent opportunities to expand what we grow both in the UK and internationally, buffering climate change and diversifying diets, with a view on increasing food security for all.
Coastal communities face a complex range of opportunities and challenges in the twenty-first century, locally to Southampton, around the UK, and worldwide. The Coastal Communities research group brings together academic, practice, community, and policy experts across economic, social, health, and environmental realms to collaboratively work toward sustainable solutions.
Poor air quality is one of the leading risk factors for ill health and early death. Our changing climate, and our response to it, has the potential to directly and indirectly make things worse - understanding these interactions will be crucial to protecting the health of the global population.
