Climate Change, Housing, and Health

New paper, with Ang Li and others, offering a framework for thinking how climate change, housing, and health intersect. The abstract:

Anthropogenic climate change is causing rapid shifts in temperature and weather patterns, both in location and intensity, making living conditions increasingly hazardous. This complicates housing's frontline role in protecting human health. When housing systems fail to provide universal access to secure, affordable, and suitable housing, social and health inequalities related to climate change are amplified. The location, construction, and operation of homes influence greenhouse gas emissions and must be improved to reduce their environmental impacts. This paper, the second in a Series on housing as a social determinant of health, builds a framework for conceptualising the interactions between housing, climate, and health. It identifies the pathways through which climate change affects housing and exacerbates health risks, and reflects on policy responses for climate resilience in housing and health.

Reference: Li, A., Toll, M., Chapman, R., Howden-Chapman, P., Hernández, D., Samuelson, H., Woodward, A. and Bentley, R., 2025. Housing at the intersection of health and climate change. The Lancet Public Health, 10(10), pp.e865-e873.

New Blog: Musings on the Dérive

I have started a new blog, the intention is to focus on street photography and more personal reflective pieces, here it is: Musings on the Dérive. 

From the first post: 

Initially, I intended this to be a street photography blog. The title playing on the idea of street photographers as modern flaneurs drifting through the city and recording a vision of how it feels to be alive and situated in a particular time and place. Yet, as I start to write, I think this is going to be a drift through myself and whatever occurs to me. Perhaps focused on candid photography of life in public spaces but not limited to it.