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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

Reyhan Cafri, Pınar Kaya Samut
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781522576358|ISBN10: 1522576355|EISBN13: 9781522576365
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7635-8.ch011
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Cafri, Reyhan, and Pınar Kaya Samut. "A Panel Asymmetric Causality Between Health and Climate Change: Empirical Evidence From EU Regions." Environmental Exposures and Human Health Challenges, edited by Paraskevi Papadopoulou, et al., IGI Global, 2019, pp. 223-247. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7635-8.ch011

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Cafri, R. & Samut, P. K. (2019). A Panel Asymmetric Causality Between Health and Climate Change: Empirical Evidence From EU Regions. In P. Papadopoulou, C. Marouli, & A. Misseyanni (Eds.), Environmental Exposures and Human Health Challenges (pp. 223-247). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7635-8.ch011

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Cafri, Reyhan, and Pınar Kaya Samut. "A Panel Asymmetric Causality Between Health and Climate Change: Empirical Evidence From EU Regions." In Environmental Exposures and Human Health Challenges, edited by Paraskevi Papadopoulou, Christina Marouli, and Anastasia Misseyanni, 223-247. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/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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