Climate Change, Public Health, Social Peace

Abstract

Human well-being results from multiple interactions between highly diverse issues and actors. Crucial factors range from basic hygiene to social cohesion and environmental integrity. In this century, the development of a critical triangle of challenges-consisting of climate change, public health, and social peace-will determine whether a good life for all people on Earth is possible, at least in principle. Those three challenges may seem rather unrelated at first glance, but they are closely tied together and cannot be properly understood in isolation. In this chapter, we highlight essential aspects and relationships according to the current state of the respective arts.