Advancing Our Knowledge of the Environment-Wellbeing Relationship

Abstract

Climate change interacts with other environmental stressors. Some places and, owing to socio-
economic conditions, some people, are far more at risk. Multi-region, multi-group, assessments of the environment-wellbeing nexus rely on coarse, regionally aggregated data. Alternatively, assessments with detailed granularity focus on ad-hoc samples and collect limited information. Only studies which are comprehensive in both the population and the characteristics they consider can determine whether climate adaptation policies achieve fair outcomes. We expand on representative, individual-level, longitudinal data, with environmental information. We build a new, publicly accessible dataset, which we empirically demonstrate can advance understanding of climate impacts and shed new light on the effectiveness and fairness of climate policies.

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Funding Information: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation action under the Marie S.-Curie grant agreement No. 956107.

Conflict of Interests: None of the authors have competing interests.