Citation

McMichael AJ. Aust. J. Rural Health 2011; 19(5): 227-228.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Association for Australian Rural Nurses; National Rural Health Alliance, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1440-1584.2011.01217.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Rural and Indigenous communities in many regions of the world are bearing the brunt of early human-induced climate change. The dust has, at last, begun to settle on the primary debate over climate change and its human input. However, as global climate change progresses over coming decades, dust, smoke, flames, water and wind will impinge more damagingly on many of Australia's rural and remote communities. Property, harvests, incomes, jobs and community vitality are at risk. More troubling, there are great risks to physical and, in particular, mental health.