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Climate Change, Public Health, and Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific

From Mitigation to Adaptation

  • 1st Edition - January 29, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Sebastian Kevany
  • Language: English

Climate Change, Public Health, and Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific: From Mitigation to Adaptation addresses the absence of solutions to looming and inevitable regional securi… Read more

Description

Climate Change, Public Health, and Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific: From Mitigation to Adaptation addresses the absence of solutions to looming and inevitable regional security, health, and environmental threats. To date, there has not been a comprehensive solution-based focus on climate change in the region that includes subjects such as acceptance of the consequences; implications for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief; the role of defense forces in managing migration, climate refugees, infectious diseases, and related issues such as flooding or land use change; and a further focus on climate change and implications for public health in the Indo-Pacific. This book addresses these issues and provides strategies for those living and working in the region. Written by regional experts for public health, security, and climate change practitioners, researchers and experts, as well as regional and international policymakers and opinion leaders in the area.

Key features

  • Explores climate change response strategies in a critical global region
  • Develops innovative response strategies to a key security issue
  • Describes evolving climate change threats first-hand from regional experts

Readership

Public health, security, and climate change practitioners, researchers and experts; also regional and international policymakers and opinion leaders in this area

Table of contents

  1. The imperative of Green One Health: a vision for climate and health resilience and sustainability
    Noel Lee J. Miranda, Geminn Louis C. Apostol, Ronald P. Law, Percival Ethan C. Lao
  2. Exploring the environmental security domain: toward a new security paradigm?
    J. Scott Hauger
  3. Accepting climate change and public health threats: bowing to the inevitable
    Sebastian Kevany
  4. Introduction: climate change and public health threats—threat multipliers to resilience in the Indo-Pacific
    Sebastian Kevany
  5. Climate diplomacy in a competitive Indo-Pacific: accepting climate realities, adapting to change, and strengthening resilience
    Taryn Ino
  6. New considerations for Indo-Pacific climate and health security: conflict, resilience, and nontraditional security dynamics
    Sebastian Kevany
  7. Slow emergencies, noncommunicable diseases and climate induced health injustice
    Amy Gildea
  8. Climate and health security in the Indo-Pacific: developing convergent interventions
    Sebastian Kevany
  9. Pathways to Resilience – Aligning Health, Climate, and Communities in the Asia-Pacific
    Novil Wijesekara
  10. Climate change and public health: the implications for defense forces in the Indo-Pacific
    Sebastian Kevany
  11. And the heat goes on: unprecedented global heating trends mandate urgent action to ensure Indo-Pacific security
    Ethan Allen
  12. Is South Asia concerned about environmental security? Maybe not enough!
    Srini Sitaraman
  13. China and climate change as compound challenges to Taiwan’s national security
    Ling‑Tuan Linda Liu
  14. Implications of climate change for the Armed Forces of Honduras: Challenges, constitutional mandates, and strategic responses
    Carlos Antonio Zavala Ordóñez
  15. Climate change and the military
    John M. Hatfield
  16. Climate frontlines: implications for air operations and security in a warming world
    Kasun Wijetunge
  17. Climate and health diplomacy and great power competition in the Indo-Pacific: a pivotal regional force
    Sebastian Kevany
  18. China’s complex approach to climate security: implications for the Indo-Pacific
    Sebastian Kevany, Lukas Filler
  19. Climate change, health security, and regional stability in the Indo-Pacific: Japan’s potential role in addressing interconnected challenges
    Ayako Takemi, Kenta Minamitani
  20. Strengthening United States–Japan bilateral cooperation on climate change toward a net‑zero world
    Jamie Lee
  21. Climate change, human securities, and their relationships
    Jonathan M. Cohen
  22. Climate and health threats as unifying regional forces in the Indo-Pacific
    Sebastian Kevany
  23. The implications of climate and public health concerns for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the Indo-Pacific: regional security considerations
    Sebastian Kevany
  24. Climate change and Philippine public safety strategies
    Amparo Pamela Fabe
  25. Climate change under human rights lens
    Teresa R. Iskander
  26. Hurricane season and war: the modern stragetic planning implications of hurricanes and typhoons
    Edward Salo
  27. Healing after the storm. Relational health and humanitarian response in a changing Pacific
    Amy Gildea
  28. Climate and health security versus regional security: the key importance of Indo-Pacific community perspectives
    Sebastian Kevany
  29. Climate change and adaptive health systems
    Teresa R. Iskander
  30. Human security and exclusionary conservation: rethinking conservation governance in Europe’s Danube Delta and the Indo-Pacific
    Andreea Mosila
  31. Marshallese migration from Enewetak Atoll to Hawai’i
    Treena Becker
  32. Climate, health, and human security: refugees and regional displacement
    Sebastian Kevany
  33. National and regional climate and health threats and individual responses: how behavior change contributes to macro‑level resilience solutions
    Sebastian Kevany
  34. Preparedness against the psychological implications of climate change and natural disasters on cancer patients and caregivers
    Evangelia Markopoulou, Christos Tsagkaris
  35. The impact of heat waves on the mental health and well‑being of young adults in rural Lahore, Pakistan
    Iqra Ashraf
  36. Women under the weather: how climate change affects women’s sexual and reproductive health
    Sadhbh Lee
  37. How consumerism consumes us: interconnections between consumerism, climate change, and public health
    Ivana Hussu
  38. The interconnected crisis: climate change and obesity in a changing world
    Sourav Neogi
  39. The intertwined crises of climate change and childhood obesity: a systematic review
    Sourav Neogi
  40. The rising tide within, mental health and wellbeing in a climate‑challenged Pacific
    Amy Gildea
  41. Climate, health, and energy security in the Indo-Pacific: balances between competing regional security priorities
    Sebastian Kevany
  42. Climate‑resilient cybersecurity: protecting data centers from extreme weather threats
    S. Hansi Munasinghe, Ramedha Jayawardhana
  43. Environmentalism, natural resources, and the Indo-Pacific economy: the climate and health challenges
    Sebastian Kevany
  44. Political perspectives on climate change policy in New Zealand: implications for regional security in the Indo-Pacific
    Andreea Mosila
  45. Climate and health security versus economic security: trade‑offs and solutions in the Indo-Pacific
    Sebastian Kevany

Review quotes

"This edited volume brings together many voices, largely from the Indo-Pacific region, to assess the effects of climate change on health, public and military security, and related issues. It focuses especially on military matters... The purpose of the book is to assess the risks indicated and provide broad solutions, including suggestions on policy. These are extremely worthy objectives.... A few chapters, however, stand out and make serious and important contributions to the book's goals.... [C]ollectively they present an excellent and valuable overview of security issues facing the region. Chapters on Honduras, Japan, and hurricanes are notable.... Among other outstanding topics and chapters are Jonathan Cohen’s really excellent chapter on securities [and] Andreea Mosila’s discussion.... This book will be useful to those who want or need an introduction to military and related security issues in the Indo-Pacific region. It is recommended to such readers. There is no comparable source." Review by Eugene Anderson, PhD (University of California, Riverside). ©Doody's Review Service, 2026.

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 29, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Sebastian Kevany

Combining extensive professional experience in diplomacy, international security, development, public health, and climate change, Sebastian Kevany has conducted over 100 field missions to Africa, the Middle East, the South Pacific, Eastern Europe, and Asia with a focus on monitoring and evaluation, health security, international relations, human rights, and international security and governance. He is the author of two books on global diplomacy, security, and health; has published over 100 peer-reviewed academic articles on related issues; and holds BA and MA degrees from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland); an MPH degree from the University of Cape Town (South Africa); a doctorate by life research from the University of Westminster (United Kingdom).

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii

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