ABSTRACT
Climate hazards have always been part of farming, including crop and livestock mortality. The largest and most populous continent, Asia, presents prominent challenges with respect to climate and health. Many of the low-lying atolls threatened by climate change lie in Asia, including Kiribati, the Maldives, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu. Overall, there is no doubt that climate change affects climate hazards, including in Asia. How those hazards are affected involves major complexities, meaning that it would be challenging to give any hierarchy or ranking regarding importance or potential effects. Precipitation is expected to become much more intense in many locations around the world, including across Asia, due to climate change. Mortality and morbidity from heatwaves are likely to increase under climate change. Health impacts from heat stress depend on physiological adaptation to higher average temperatures as well as living and working conditions.
