Melinda A Judge

Biographic Data

ID7995266
NAMEMelinda A Judge
GIVEN NAMESMelinda A
FAMILY NAMEJudge
SIGNATUREJUDGE M A
AFFILIATIONSThe Kids Research Institute Australia
ORCID0000-0002-9948-1865
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Global systematic review of how climate change degrades the wellbeing and health of Indigenous children

    Open AccessJaime J Turnbull, Naomi Hemy et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2026

    Climate change worsens global health, with Indigenous children among the most vulnerable. Despite increasing research on climate-related health impacts, Indigenous children’s unique vulnerabilities remain underrepresented. This is the first review to synthesise systematically the global evidence on how climate change impacts the health of Indigenous children. We consolidated reported health outcomes directly caused by climate change in Indigenous…

  • Global human population has surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity

    Open AccessCorey J A Bradshaw, Melinda A Judge et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    The ecological concept of human carrying capacity is necessarily complicated because human beings are the ‘ultimate ecosystem engineers’ who moderate the environment for their benefit. For at least the last few hundred years, human ingenuity, access to massive stocks of fossil fuels, and technological development have driven facilitation whereby increasing human abundance has promoted higher population growth rates. However, this positive relatio…

  • Climate change policies fail to protect child health

    Open AccessJhermayne Ubalde, Corey J A Bradshaw et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2025

    National policies are essential for countries to adapt to the negative health impacts of climate change. Children are disproportionately affected by these impacts and must be at the heart of adaptation policies to address their vulnerabilities. Adaptation commitments worldwide are integrated into national adaptation plans, nationally determined contributions, national communications, and other multisectoral policies. We aimed to evaluate how effe…

  • Net benefit of smaller human populations to environmental integrity and individual health and wellbeing

    Open AccessChitra Maharani Saraswati, Melinda A Judge et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: The global human population is still growing such that our collective enterprise is driving environmental catastrophe. Despite a decline in average population growth rate, we are still experiencing the highest annual increase of global human population size in the history of our species-averaging an additional 84 million people per year since 1990. No review to date has accumulated the available evidence describing the associations …