Climate Change, Public Health, and Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific
From Mitigation to Adaptation
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Sebastian Kevany
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 0 3 6 8 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 0 3 6 9 - 9
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
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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.
- 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
Public health, security, and climate change practitioners, researchers and experts; also regional and international policymakers and opinion leaders in this area
1. Accepting climate change: Bowing to the inevitable
2. Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief: What effects will climate change have?
3. Implications for defense forces
4. Climate change and public health in the Indo-Pacific
5. Climate diplomacy and great power competition
6. Climate change, refugees, and regional displacement
7. Climate change as a unifying regional force
2. Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief: What effects will climate change have?
3. Implications for defense forces
4. Climate change and public health in the Indo-Pacific
5. Climate diplomacy and great power competition
6. Climate change, refugees, and regional displacement
7. Climate change as a unifying regional force
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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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