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Mathew Toll
@mathew-toll.bsky.social
Sociology, climate change, public policy.

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We highlight the need for housing policy to be leveraged to meet the health challenge of climate change and caution against the pitfalls of reactive and selective adaptation that leave vulnerable communities susceptible.
September 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
It explores how climate change acts as a multiplier, intensifying health risks for people in poor-quality or insecure housing. And how climate-related housing vulnerability is rooted not only in poorly adapted physical structures but also the social organisation of housing
September 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This builds on, in part, our previous work, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, that mapped the social vulnerability indicators used in the health and climate change literature:

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Mapping social vulnerability indicators to understand the health impacts of climate change: a scoping review
The need to assess and measure how social vulnerability influences the health impacts of climate change has resulted in a rapidly growing body of research literature. To date, there has been no overar...
www.thelancet.com
July 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
That's exactly my problem at the moment. It's extremely frustrating
June 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
May 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
A linked commentary piece by Sarah R Lowe & Dana Rose Garfin describes the study as "perhaps the most rigorous study on successive climate-related disaster exposure to date" and "a major contribution to the literature on climate change and mental health." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Climate disasters and mental health: directions for research, practice, and policy
Climate change has increased the frequency, severity, and lethality of climate disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires, and floods, with these trends expected to escalate.1 Resultingly, individuals...
www.thelancet.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I thought they accepted non-lecia cameras in the slections, just not the mastershots
February 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I was reading Thomas Piketty's A Brief History of Equality recently and he goes into how even in well-funded public systems in Europe, relatively privileged people still get the benefit of a disproportionate amount of public funding. I have no doubt that would be the case in Australia as well.
November 26, 2024 at 9:20 AM