Grace Kathryn
Department of Geography, Environment, and Society and the Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 558 Social Sciences Building, 267-19 Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
Nat Clim Chang. 2017;7:479-485. doi: 10.1038/nclimate3318. Epub 2017 Jun 30.
Understanding the links between climate and fertility and reproductive health outcomes in poor countries is a major ethical and policy imperative. However, doing so will require researchers in population sciences and in earth and climate sciences to merge their expertise. To this end, the dominant theoretical frameworks and readily available geospatial population data used by social scientists provide a starting point for climate and physical scientists to think about the mechanisms that link climate and weather to fertility and reproductive health, and available climate data and analytic strategies can be used to develop research that considers different scales of influence.
了解贫困国家气候与生育率及生殖健康结果之间的联系是一项重大的伦理和政策要务。然而，要做到这一点，人口科学以及地球与气候科学领域的研究人员需要融合他们的专业知识。为此，社会科学家所使用的主流理论框架和现成的地理空间人口数据为气候科学家和自然科学家思考将气候和天气与生育率及生殖健康联系起来的机制提供了一个起点，现有的气候数据和分析策略可用于开展考虑不同影响尺度的研究。
