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Climate change and health in cities: impacts of heat and air pollution and potential co-benefits from mitigation and adaptation
Sharon L. Harlan,Darren Ruddell +1 more
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In this article, the authors proposed mitigation and adaptation strategies in cities' climate risk management plans may produce health co-benefits by reducing emissions and cooling temperatures through changes in the built environment, however, to implement the plans and the most widely documented beneficial policy to date is the adoption of heat warning and air quality alert systems to trigger emergency responses.About:
This article is published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 370 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Climate risk management & Air quality index.read more
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Adaptive Capacity to Extreme Heat: Results from a Household Survey in Houston, Texas
Mary H. Hayden,Olga V. Wilhelmi,Deborah Banerjee,Tamara A. Greasby,Jamie L. Cavanaugh,Vishnu P. Nepal,Jennifer Boehnert,Stephan R. Sain,Crystal Burghardt,Stephanie Gower +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was conducted by telephone at 901 households in Houston in 2011 and found that 20% of the respondents reported heat-related symptoms in the summer of 2011 despite widespread air conditioning availability throughout Houston.
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Statistical Review of Quality Parameters of Blue-Green Infrastructure Elements Important in Mitigating the Effect of the Urban Heat Island in the Temperate Climate (C) Zone.
TL;DR: The research has indicated that the BGI object parameters are essential for UHI mitigation, which are the following: area of water objects and green areas, street greenery leaf size (LAI), green roofs hydration degree, and green walls location.
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Local climate change cultures: climate-relevant discursive practices in three emerging economies
Nicholas Nash,Lorraine Whitmarsh,Stuart Capstick,Valdiney Veloso Gouveia,Rafaella de Carvalho Rodrigues Araújo,Monika dos Santos,Romeo Palakatsela,Yuebai Liu,Marie K. Harder,Xiao Wang +9 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that climate change scholars should address locally relevant understandings and develop dialogues that can wider meanings that construct climate-relevant issues in vernacular ways at the local level.
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Converging urban Agendas: Toward healthy and sustainable communities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace a historical overview of urban sustainability theory and practice, and explain why urban sustainability planning and development currently face limited and inconsistent application, and show that this lack of public uptake is due in part to monitoring, assessment, and decision-support frameworks and tools that do not engage citizens and their governments in a shared "strong sustainability" analysis and/or vision.
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Air Pollution Prevention and Control Policy in China.
TL;DR: The past and current circumstances of China's responses to air pollution are reviewed, the control challenges and future options for a better air quality in China are discussed, and links between air pollution and climate change are unraveled.
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Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors set the stage for impact, adaptation, and vulnerability assessment of climate change in the context of sustainable development and equity, and developed and applied scenarios in Climate Change Impact, Adaptation, and Vulnerability Assessment.
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Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a cross-chapter case study on climate change and sustainability in natural and managed systems and assess key vulnerabilities and the risk from climate change, and assess adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity.
Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
TL;DR: Drafting Authors: Neil Adger, Pramod Aggarwal, Shardul Agrawala, Joseph Alcamo, Abdelkader Allali, Oleg Anisimov, Nigel Arnell, Michel Boko, Osvaldo Canziani, Timothy Carter, Gino Casassa, Ulisses Confalonieri, Rex Victor Cruz, Edmundo de Alba Alcaraz, William Easterling, Christopher Field, Andreas Fischlin, Blair Fitzharris.
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Health effects of fine particulate air pollution: lines that connect
C. Arden Pope,Douglas W. Dockery +1 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive evaluation of the research findings provides persuasive evidence that exposure to fine particulate air pollution has adverse effects on cardiopulmonary health.