Healthy Climatic Adaption and Climate Change
Journal: Sustainable development goals series
Year: 2024

Abstract Having described and explored the global to individual context of climate change and health, this chapter now explores the biological imperative of any organism to maintain homeostasis. As a key function of this imperative, in humans, the cardiovascular system plays a key role in maintaining homeostasis. Over time we (humans) have overcome many of the biological limitations/constraints of these protective mechanisms through a combination of behavioural, cultural and technological adapta