Climate change and global health

• Project/Area Number: 17KT0118
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 特設分野
• Research Field: Global Studies
• Research Institution: National Institute for Environmental Studies (2018-2019); The University of Tokyo (2017)
• Principal Investigator: Sekiyama Makiko 国立研究開発法人国立環境研究所, 環境リスク・健康研究センター, 主任研究員 (90396896)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 松田 浩敬 東京農業大学, 農学部, 准教授 (50451901) ; ギータ モハン 国際連合大学サステイナビリティ高等研究所, サステイナビリティ高等研究, Research Fellow (90647075)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-07-18 – 2020-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
• Keywords: 栄養不良 / 東アフリカ / 気候変動 / 感染症 / グローバルヘルス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

East Africa is one of the most vulnerable area to climate change. Health consequences of climate change in East Africa includes malnutrition, vector-borne diseases, diarrhea and heatstroke, whereas its mechanism is very complex and uncovered. The purpose of this research is 1) to establish the research partnership with research institutes in East Africa on this topic, and 2) to elucidate factors that mediates the consequences of climate change on malnutrition based on the field survey.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

東アフリカにおいて実施したシンポジウムでの議論や共同でのフィールド調査を通じ、東アフリカでの気候変動の健康影響を明らかにするうえで、気候変動と疾病等の関連はもちろんのこと、それに自然資源-農業-栄養-健康の連関を同時に踏まえる必要があること、さらにそれらの背景たる伝統的な土地制度や家族制度など、特有の要因を分析することが求められることが示唆された。本研究は、研究フレームワーク、手法等の試行段階にとどまるが、今後、さらなる研究蓄積を図り精緻化することで、社会の基盤となる文化の継承と発展、社会生活の質の改善、現代的諸問題の克服と解決に資する等、社会貢献することが期待される。

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] ナイロビ大学(ケニア)
• [Presentation] An extended input-output analysis among economic sectors and intersectoral water use in Bali Province, Indonesia. (2020)
  • Author(s): Geetha M
  • Organizer: Young Sustainability Symposium (YSS) -2020. Graduate School of Environmental Science/Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan. 3rd-5th February 2020.
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Simulating the impacts of climate change and farm-level adaptation strategies on rice yields in India and Vietnam. (2019)
  • Author(s): Geetha, M., Matsuda, H., Melts, I., Sekiyama, M., Nguyen, T.L., Anugu, A.R., Fukushi, K.
  • Organizer: 100th American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA,9-13 December.
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Book] Tackling child malnutrition through strengthening the linkage between agricultutre, nutrition and health in rural Rwanda. In Gasparatos, A., Ahmed, A., Naidoo, M., Karanja, A., Saito, O., Fukushi, K., Takeuchi, K., (Eds.), Sustainability Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa II: Insights from Eastern and Southern Africa. Springer, Berlin. (2020)
  • Author(s): Sekiyama, M., Matsuda, H., Geetha, M., Yanagisawa, A., Sudo, N., Amitani, Y., Caballero, Y., Matsuoka, T., Imanishi, H., Sasaki. T.
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9789811553578
• [Funded Workshop] Development of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Human Health Impacts in East Africa -Research and Education Collaboration Between Kenya and Japan- (2018)
• [Funded Workshop] Development of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Human Health Impacts in Urban Area of East Africa (2017)