ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
Springer Nature is one of the world’s leading academic publishers, renowned for publishing high-quality books, journals, and scientific research across diverse disciplines. With a strong commitment to advancing knowledge and innovation, Springer provides a global platform for researchers, academicians, professionals, policymakers to disseminate scholarly work. Publication with Springer offers international visibility, rigorous editorial standards, and extensive academic reach.
ABOUT THE EDITED VOLUME
Climate-Ready Preventive Healthcare: Heat, Equity, and Community Resilience in a Warming World is an upcoming edited volume to be published by Springer. The book aims to explore innovative strategies for developing climate-resilient healthcare systems capable of addressing the growing public health challenges posed by climate change. It examines climate-related health risks, sustainable healthcare infrastructure, digital health technologies, disaster preparedness, policy frameworks, and equitable healthcare delivery.
DESCRIPTION AND SCOPE
Climate change has emerged as one of greatest public health challenges of the 21st century. Increasing temperatures, weather events, environmental degradation, social inequities are placing unprecedented pressure on healthcare systems global. This provides a multidisciplinary platform to examine preventive healthcare through the lens of climate resilience.
WHO CAN SUBMIT?
Academicians, Researchers, Ph.D. Scholars, Healthcare Professionals, Medical Practitioners, Environmental Scientists, Public Health Experts, Policy Analysts, Government Officials, Climate Researchers, Interdisciplinary Scholars
THEMES AND SUB-THEMES
- Assessing Impacts and Vulnerabilities
- Global public health impacts of climate change
- Physical risks to healthcare infrastructure
- Climate-induced mental health and displacement
- Health equity and access to healthcare
- Economic consequences of climate inaction
- Operational Resilience and Transformative Leadership
- Leadership for climate-resilient healthcare
- Climate-responsive medical education and training
- Disaster preparedness and emergency response
- Occupational health and workforce protection
- Sustainable and low-carbon healthcare operations
- The Digital Frontier: AI and Innovative Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence for early warning and risk prediction
- Telemedicine and remote healthcare delivery
- Big data analytics and geospatial disease surveillance
- Smart healthcare infrastructure and digital transformation
- Robotics, logistics, and resilient healthcare supply chains
- Policy, Governance and Global Cooperation
- Translating climate policy into healthcare action
- Public-private partnerships for climate and health
- Climate-informed health governance and financing
- Global health justice and equitable adaptation
- Monitoring, evaluation and future resilience indicators
SUBMISSION PROCESS
- Submit a 250-word proposal (abstract) to the editors.
- The proposal should mention the title “Climate-Ready Preventive Healthcare: Heat, Equity, and Community Resilience in a Warming World” in the subject.
- The proposal file should be named in format: Proposal_[FirstName_LastName].pdf
- Proposal decisions will be communicated via email.
Note: One foreign co-author collaboration is mandatory.
HOW TO SUBMIT?
https://forms.gle/jneJWrfNjd6GQbSr5
IMPORTANT DATES
| Event | Date |
| Abstract/Proposal Submission Deadline | 31 August 2026 |
| Notification of Acceptance | 30 September 2026 |
| Invitation for Full Chapter Submission | To Successful Contributors |
EDITORS
- (Dr.) Walter Leal Filho – Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Shilpa Chatterjee – Linnaeus University, Sweden
- Pushan Kumar Dutta – Amity University, Kolkata, India
