Donna Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 4013853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4521-8735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Electric vehicle battery storage displacement of grid storage in Australia’s renewable future
Electric vehicles (EVs) with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology offer a dual solution to decarbonise the energy and transport sectors. This paper evaluates the potential for Australia’s passenger and light commercial EV fleet to replace large-scale battery storage under a 100% renewable energy system in the National Electricity Market. By simulating various levels of V2G battery availability, we assess the impact on energy production costs, renewab…
Respiratory risks from wildfire-specific PM2.5 across multiple countries and territories
Under a warming climate, wildfires are becoming more frequent and severe. Multicountry studies evaluating associations between wildfire fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and respiratory hospitalizations are lacking. Here we evaluate the short-term effects of wildfire-specific PM 2.5 on respiratory hospitalizations from 1,052 communities across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Vietnam, Thailand and Taiwan, during 2000–2019. A 1 μg m …
Health risks of exposure to wildfire-toxic air
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples
The transition to renewable energy in Australia represents a significant opportunity for First Nations communities to benefit from developments on their land. In partnership with the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation and the First Nations Clean Energy Network, the authors conducted research exploring this opportunity, with a specific focus on the barriers preventing First Nations from achieving these benefits and what different groups of actors…
Acute air pollution and temperature exposure as independent and joint triggers of spontaneous preterm birth in New South Wales, Australia: A time-to-event analysis
Introduction Exposure to high ambient temperatures and air pollution has been shown to increase the risk of spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB). Less clear are the effects of cold and the joint effects of air pollution and temperature. Methods Using a Cox proportional hazard regression model, we assessed the risk of independent and combined short-term exposure to ambient daily mean temperature and PM 2.5 associated with sPTB in the last week before …
Climate change, air pollution and human health
This article takes stock of recent literature on health impacts of climate change and air pollution, and the corresponding health benefits of policy action aiming to reduce greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions. We focus particularly on the publications in the Focus Collection on ‘Climate Change, Air Pollution and Human Health’, which illustrate advances in three key research areas. First, the impacts of global warming and air pollution are …
Future population exposure to Australian heatwaves
Heatwaves are Australia’s deadliest natural hazard. Anthropogenic climate change has increased the intensity, frequency and duration of heatwaves over Australia in the past several decades and these trends are projected to worsen in the future. Despite the strong knowledge of heatwave characteristics and their projected changes, there remains a gap in understanding how the Australian population will be exposed to future heatwaves. This study esti…
Temporal variations of the association between summer season heat exposure and hospitalizations for renal diseases in Queensland, Australia, 1995–2016
To examine the temporal trends of the association between heat exposure and hospitalizations for renal disease in Queensland, Australia, between the summer season of 1 December 1995 and 31 December 2016. A total of 238 427 de-identified hospitalization records for renal disease were collected from Queensland Health. Meteorological data was obtained from the Scientific Information for Land Owners. Summer season means four consecutive months with h…
Women’s empowerment and household fuel use in 31 African countries: A cross-sectional analysis of households in the Demographic and Health Survey
Access to clean and affordable energy is vital for health, well-being, and socio-economic development. This critical service remains unrealised in many African countries. Women's empowerment is known to promote healthcare service use, child nutrition and agricultural productivity. In Africa, however, little is known about the relationship between women's empowerment and household fuel use, and if it varies between countries. Therefore, we assesse…
Dengue transmission risk in a changing climate: Bangladesh is likely to experience a longer dengue fever season in the future
Our changing climate is already affecting the transmission of dengue fever, the fastest growing vector-borne viral disease in the world. This issue presents a significant public health concern for some nations, such as Bangladesh, which already experience regular seasonal outbreaks of dengue fever under present day conditions. To provide guidance for proactive public health planning to potentially mitigate the severity of future outbreaks, we exp…
Toward eliminating children’s lead exposure: A comparison of policies and their outcomes in three lead producing and using countries
Though the problem of childhood lead poisoning has been recognized for more than a century, it remains an important threat to children’s health and development. This comparative policy assessment examines and compares environmental and public health policies to prevent children’s exposure of three major lead producing countries. Germany, the USA and Australia were used to explore a range of approaches primarily at the national level to identify b…
School children’s exposure to indoor fine particulate matter
Assessing the exposure of children to indoor fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) is important because children spend about one third of their day inside early learning microenvironments. Children are more vulnerable to air pollution due to a number of physiological reasons and, therefore, it is crucial to explore the factors that affect indoor (and outdoor) PM 2.5 levels in these locations to determine appropriate measures to reduce children's expo…
Inequalities in exposure to the air pollutants PM 2.5 and NO 2 in Australia
Vulnerable subpopulations may be exposed to higher levels of outdoor air pollution than the rest of the population. Due to the potential for this to exacerbate their existing health burden, concerns about disparities in subpopulations’ air pollution exposure have motivated international public health researchers to examine this topic. In Australia, such research is lacking to date, despite heterogeneity in air pollution at multiple spatial scales…
Does Particulate Matter Modify the Short-Term Association between Heat Waves and Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular Diseases in Greater Sydney, Australia
Little is known about the potential interactive effects of heat waves and ambient particulate matter on cardiovascular morbidity. A time-stratified case-crossover design was used to examine whether particulate matter (PM 10 ) modifies the association between heat waves and emergency hospital admissions for six cardiovascular diseases in Greater Sydney, Australia during the warm season for 2001-2013. We estimated and compared the effect of heat wa…
Environmental justice analyses may hide inequalities in Indigenous people’s exposure to lead in Mount Isa, Queensland
Distributive environmental justice studies frequently identify how ethnic minorities and communities of low socio-economic status (SES) are disproportionately likely to live in areas with an elevated risk of exposure to pollution. Few distributive justice studies have been conducted in Australia to explore whether this relationship is relevant to rural mining communities. In the remote mining city of Mount Isa, studies have found higher geometric…
Environmental injustice in resource-rich Aboriginal Australia
This chapter explores the disproportionate impact mining has on Aboriginal Australians. Aboriginal Australians represent the world&s;s longest continuous living culture, and comprise about 2.5 per cent of the Australian population, although in Northern Australia, this percentage rises to about one third. Mining, and the processing of natural resources, carries social, environmental and health costs that are not fully accounted for by the mining c…
Greater increases in temperature extremes in low versus high income countries
It is commonly expected that the world's lowest income countries will face some of the worst impacts of global warming, despite contributing the least to greenhouse gas emissions. Using global atmospheric reanalyses we show that the world's lowest income countries are already experiencing greater increases in the occurrence of temperature extremes compared to the highest income countries, and have been for over two decades. Not only are low incom…
A Pilot Study of Children’s Blood Lead Levels in Mount Isa, Queensland
Mount Isa, Queensland, is one of three Australian cities with significant lead emissions due to nonferrous mining and smelting. Unlike the two other cities with lead mines or smelters, Mount Isa currently has no system of annual, systematic, community-wide blood lead level testing; and testing rates among Indigenous children are low. In previous screenings, this group of children has been shown to have higher average blood lead levels than non-In…
The Australian National Pollutant Inventory Fails to Fulfil Its Legislated Goals
Publically accessible pollution databases, such as the Australian National Pollutant Inventory, contain information on chemical emissions released by industrial facility and diffuse sources. They are meant to enable public scrutiny of industrial activity, which in turn, is meant to lead to industries reducing their pollution. In Australia, however, concerns have been consistently raised that this process is not occurring. To assess whether Austra…
The Association between Environmental Lead Exposure and High School Educational Outcomes in Four Communities in New South Wales, Australia
The associations between environmental lead exposure and high school educational outcomes in four communities located in New South Wales, Australia, were examined in this ecological study. A mixed model analysis was performed to account for each school's results being more similar than results for other schools. The effect of environmental lead exposure on mean results for five educational outcomes was examined. 'Leaded' schools with more than fi…
Maintaining the Healthy Country–Healthy People Nexus through Sociocultural and Environmental Transformations: Challenges for the Wik Aboriginal people of Aurukun, Australia
This paper examines the potential for multiple co-benefits to arise through re-establishing the connection between Aboriginal people and their lands. The research project was participatory in its design and implementation, and centred on three short but intensive visits to the Kendall River over a period of 4 years. Interviews with and observations of Kendall River people on country provided qualitative information concerning their wish to reconn…
The spatial distribution of extreme climate events, another climate inequity for the world’s most vulnerable people
Does the climate change signal emerge equally from internal climate variability across the globe? If not, are there particular locations where temperature extremes might disproportionately affect specific populations? The letter by Harrington et al (2016 Environ. Res. Lett. 11 055007 ) argues that people living in low latitude countries, which contain the majority of the world’s poorest people, are—and will continue to be—disproportionately affec…
Australia’s sustainable energy transition: The disjointed politics of decarbonisation
Australians are not equally protected from industrial air pollution
Australian air pollution standards are set at national and state levels for a number of chemicals harmful to human health. However, these standards do not need to be met when ad hoc pollution licences are issued by state environment agencies. This situation results in a highly unequal distribution of air pollution between towns and cities, and across the country. This paper examines these pollution regulations through two case studies, specifical…
Differential Effects of Temperature Extremes on Hospital Admission Rates for Respiratory Disease between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory
The health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians may be exacerbated by climate change if temperature extremes have disproportionate adverse effects on Indigenous people. To explore this issue, we analysed the effect of temperature extremes on hospital admissions for respiratory diseases, stratified by age, Indigenous status and sex, for people living in two different climates zones in the Northern Territory during the period 1993-…
Australia’s sustainable energy transition: The disjointed politics of decarbonisation
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples
The transition to renewable energy in Australia represents a significant opportunity for First Nations communities to benefit from developments on their land. In partnership with the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation and the First Nations Clean Energy Network, the authors conducted research exploring this opportunity, with a specific focus on the barriers preventing First Nations from achieving these benefits and what different groups of actors…
Respiratory risks from wildfire-specific PM2.5 across multiple countries and territories
Under a warming climate, wildfires are becoming more frequent and severe. Multicountry studies evaluating associations between wildfire fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and respiratory hospitalizations are lacking. Here we evaluate the short-term effects of wildfire-specific PM 2.5 on respiratory hospitalizations from 1,052 communities across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Vietnam, Thailand and Taiwan, during 2000–2019. A 1 μg m …
Definition and accountability: A youth perspective
This paper reviews the systemic flaws of residential treatment facilities from a youth perspective concerning the lack of transparency, definition and accountability, and the subsequent mistreatment and human rights violations of youth experiencing emotional, behavioral, and cognitive challenges
Indigenous knowledge of a changing climate
Living on Climate-Changed Country: Indigenous Health, Well-Being and Climate Change in Remote Australian Communities
Australia’s first national level quantitative environmental justice assessment of industrial air pollution
This study presents the first national level quantitative environmental justice assessment of industrial air pollution in Australia. Specifically, our analysis links the spatial distribution of sites and emissions associated with industrial pollution sources derived from the National Pollution Inventory, to Indigenous status and social disadvantage characteristics of communities derived from Australian Bureau of Statistics indicators. Our results…
Effect of Ambient Temperature on Australian Northern Territory Public Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular Disease among Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Populations
Hospitalisations are associated with ambient temperature, but little is known about responses in population sub-groups. In this study, heat responses for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in two age groups were examined for two categories of cardiac diseases using daily hospital admissions from five Northern Territory hospitals (1992-2011). Admission rates during the hottest five per cent of days and the coolest five per cent of days were comp…
Australians are not equally protected from industrial air pollution
Australian air pollution standards are set at national and state levels for a number of chemicals harmful to human health. However, these standards do not need to be met when ad hoc pollution licences are issued by state environment agencies. This situation results in a highly unequal distribution of air pollution between towns and cities, and across the country. This paper examines these pollution regulations through two case studies, specifical…
Differential Effects of Temperature Extremes on Hospital Admission Rates for Respiratory Disease between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory
The health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians may be exacerbated by climate change if temperature extremes have disproportionate adverse effects on Indigenous people. To explore this issue, we analysed the effect of temperature extremes on hospital admissions for respiratory diseases, stratified by age, Indigenous status and sex, for people living in two different climates zones in the Northern Territory during the period 1993-…
The spatial distribution of extreme climate events, another climate inequity for the world’s most vulnerable people
Does the climate change signal emerge equally from internal climate variability across the globe? If not, are there particular locations where temperature extremes might disproportionately affect specific populations? The letter by Harrington et al (2016 Environ. Res. Lett. 11 055007 ) argues that people living in low latitude countries, which contain the majority of the world’s poorest people, are—and will continue to be—disproportionately affec…
Australia’s sustainable energy transition: The disjointed politics of decarbonisation
Environmental injustice in resource-rich Aboriginal Australia
This chapter explores the disproportionate impact mining has on Aboriginal Australians. Aboriginal Australians represent the world&s;s longest continuous living culture, and comprise about 2.5 per cent of the Australian population, although in Northern Australia, this percentage rises to about one third. Mining, and the processing of natural resources, carries social, environmental and health costs that are not fully accounted for by the mining c…
Greater increases in temperature extremes in low versus high income countries
It is commonly expected that the world's lowest income countries will face some of the worst impacts of global warming, despite contributing the least to greenhouse gas emissions. Using global atmospheric reanalyses we show that the world's lowest income countries are already experiencing greater increases in the occurrence of temperature extremes compared to the highest income countries, and have been for over two decades. Not only are low incom…
A Pilot Study of Children’s Blood Lead Levels in Mount Isa, Queensland
Mount Isa, Queensland, is one of three Australian cities with significant lead emissions due to nonferrous mining and smelting. Unlike the two other cities with lead mines or smelters, Mount Isa currently has no system of annual, systematic, community-wide blood lead level testing; and testing rates among Indigenous children are low. In previous screenings, this group of children has been shown to have higher average blood lead levels than non-In…
The Australian National Pollutant Inventory Fails to Fulfil Its Legislated Goals
Publically accessible pollution databases, such as the Australian National Pollutant Inventory, contain information on chemical emissions released by industrial facility and diffuse sources. They are meant to enable public scrutiny of industrial activity, which in turn, is meant to lead to industries reducing their pollution. In Australia, however, concerns have been consistently raised that this process is not occurring. To assess whether Austra…
The Association between Environmental Lead Exposure and High School Educational Outcomes in Four Communities in New South Wales, Australia
The associations between environmental lead exposure and high school educational outcomes in four communities located in New South Wales, Australia, were examined in this ecological study. A mixed model analysis was performed to account for each school's results being more similar than results for other schools. The effect of environmental lead exposure on mean results for five educational outcomes was examined. 'Leaded' schools with more than fi…
Maintaining the Healthy Country–Healthy People Nexus through Sociocultural and Environmental Transformations: Challenges for the Wik Aboriginal people of Aurukun, Australia
This paper examines the potential for multiple co-benefits to arise through re-establishing the connection between Aboriginal people and their lands. The research project was participatory in its design and implementation, and centred on three short but intensive visits to the Kendall River over a period of 4 years. Interviews with and observations of Kendall River people on country provided qualitative information concerning their wish to reconn…
Environmental justice analyses may hide inequalities in Indigenous people’s exposure to lead in Mount Isa, Queensland
Distributive environmental justice studies frequently identify how ethnic minorities and communities of low socio-economic status (SES) are disproportionately likely to live in areas with an elevated risk of exposure to pollution. Few distributive justice studies have been conducted in Australia to explore whether this relationship is relevant to rural mining communities. In the remote mining city of Mount Isa, studies have found higher geometric…
Inequalities in exposure to the air pollutants PM 2.5 and NO 2 in Australia
Vulnerable subpopulations may be exposed to higher levels of outdoor air pollution than the rest of the population. Due to the potential for this to exacerbate their existing health burden, concerns about disparities in subpopulations’ air pollution exposure have motivated international public health researchers to examine this topic. In Australia, such research is lacking to date, despite heterogeneity in air pollution at multiple spatial scales…
Does Particulate Matter Modify the Short-Term Association between Heat Waves and Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular Diseases in Greater Sydney, Australia
Little is known about the potential interactive effects of heat waves and ambient particulate matter on cardiovascular morbidity. A time-stratified case-crossover design was used to examine whether particulate matter (PM 10 ) modifies the association between heat waves and emergency hospital admissions for six cardiovascular diseases in Greater Sydney, Australia during the warm season for 2001-2013. We estimated and compared the effect of heat wa…
Toward eliminating children’s lead exposure: A comparison of policies and their outcomes in three lead producing and using countries
Though the problem of childhood lead poisoning has been recognized for more than a century, it remains an important threat to children’s health and development. This comparative policy assessment examines and compares environmental and public health policies to prevent children’s exposure of three major lead producing countries. Germany, the USA and Australia were used to explore a range of approaches primarily at the national level to identify b…
School children’s exposure to indoor fine particulate matter
Assessing the exposure of children to indoor fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) is important because children spend about one third of their day inside early learning microenvironments. Children are more vulnerable to air pollution due to a number of physiological reasons and, therefore, it is crucial to explore the factors that affect indoor (and outdoor) PM 2.5 levels in these locations to determine appropriate measures to reduce children's expo…
Women’s empowerment and household fuel use in 31 African countries: A cross-sectional analysis of households in the Demographic and Health Survey
Access to clean and affordable energy is vital for health, well-being, and socio-economic development. This critical service remains unrealised in many African countries. Women's empowerment is known to promote healthcare service use, child nutrition and agricultural productivity. In Africa, however, little is known about the relationship between women's empowerment and household fuel use, and if it varies between countries. Therefore, we assesse…
Dengue transmission risk in a changing climate: Bangladesh is likely to experience a longer dengue fever season in the future
Our changing climate is already affecting the transmission of dengue fever, the fastest growing vector-borne viral disease in the world. This issue presents a significant public health concern for some nations, such as Bangladesh, which already experience regular seasonal outbreaks of dengue fever under present day conditions. To provide guidance for proactive public health planning to potentially mitigate the severity of future outbreaks, we exp…
Climate change, air pollution and human health
This article takes stock of recent literature on health impacts of climate change and air pollution, and the corresponding health benefits of policy action aiming to reduce greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions. We focus particularly on the publications in the Focus Collection on ‘Climate Change, Air Pollution and Human Health’, which illustrate advances in three key research areas. First, the impacts of global warming and air pollution are …
Future population exposure to Australian heatwaves
Heatwaves are Australia’s deadliest natural hazard. Anthropogenic climate change has increased the intensity, frequency and duration of heatwaves over Australia in the past several decades and these trends are projected to worsen in the future. Despite the strong knowledge of heatwave characteristics and their projected changes, there remains a gap in understanding how the Australian population will be exposed to future heatwaves. This study esti…
Temporal variations of the association between summer season heat exposure and hospitalizations for renal diseases in Queensland, Australia, 1995–2016
To examine the temporal trends of the association between heat exposure and hospitalizations for renal disease in Queensland, Australia, between the summer season of 1 December 1995 and 31 December 2016. A total of 238 427 de-identified hospitalization records for renal disease were collected from Queensland Health. Meteorological data was obtained from the Scientific Information for Land Owners. Summer season means four consecutive months with h…
Medicine (17 works) · Geography (16 works) · Environmental health (15 works) · Ecology (14 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (12 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (12 works) · Environmental Science (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Climate change (8 works)