Impacts on environemntal and climate change on the health and mortality of the popualtionand

Title: Impacts of environmental and climate change on health and mortality
1. Abstract: It is increasingly recognized that for any small, heavily populated and largely agricultural island economy, the environment is one of the essential elements of sustainable development. One of the earliest concerns over the environmental stress both on land and offshore caused by excessive population and development activities was the study undertaken by the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the University of Mauritius and the Government of Mauritius over the period 1992 to 1994. The Population Development Environment (PDE) model was prepared to understand the linkages between the three over the period 1990 to 2020 and 2050 under three different scenarios namely Traditional/crisis/ laissez faire, Modern /crises/laissez faire with food self-sufficiency and Modern/boom/garden scenarios. The Mauritian government has itself continued its concern with the environment and prepared the First state of the environment report in 1991. It has since studied various aspects of environmental impact on the population. This study wil (i) compare the outcome of the 1992 PDE model with the latest 2011 report. it will (ii) assess the impact on the health of the population and in particular as a result of the ageing of the population