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A Panel Asymmetric Causality Between Health and Climate Change: Empirical Evidence From EU Regions

A Panel Asymmetric Causality Between Health and Climate Change: Empirical Evidence From EU Regions
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Author(s): Reyhan Cafri (Iskenderun Technical University, Turkey)and Pınar Kaya Samut (Atılım University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 25
Source title: Environmental Exposures and Human Health Challenges
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Paraskevi Papadopoulou (Deree – The American College of Greece, Greece), Christina Marouli (Deree – The American College of Greece, Greece)and Anastasia Misseyanni (Deree – The American College of Greece, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7635-8.ch011

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Abstract

As climate change threatens human life and health by causing severe storms, floods, temperature fluctuations and droughts, it is predicted that in the coming decades, most of the global population will be impacted and the lives of millions will be at risk. In this context, the article investigates the existence of a symmetric and asymmetric causality between climate change and health between 1990 and 2015 for European countries, including EU, EFTA member and EU candidate states. In the first stage of the analysis, health scores are estimated by cluster and discriminant analyses; in the second stage, the relationships among these scores and climate variables are examined. The country-specific findings are obtained for the health effects of climate change variables according to factors such as geographical structure and seasonal characteristics. According to the results, while the health effects of changes in temperature and greenhouse emissions differ from country to country, the reduction in precipitation for nearly half of the countries is found to have a negative effect on health.

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