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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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The Urban Heat Island: Implications for Health in a Changing Environment.
Clare Heaviside,Clare Heaviside,Clare Heaviside,Helen L. Macintyre,Sotiris Vardoulakis,Sotiris Vardoulakis +5 more
TL;DR: Estimations of the impacts of various mitigation techniques suggest that a range of measures could reduce health impacts from heat and bring other benefits to health and wellbeing.
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Effects of the spatial configuration of trees on urban heat mitigation: A comparative study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between the spatial configuration of trees and land surface temperature (LST) using different statistical approaches, and conducted the analyses using spatial units of different sizes, based on trees mapped from 1-m high resolution imagery.
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Recent progress on urban overheating and heat island research. integrated assessment of the energy, environmental, vulnerability and health impact synergies with the global climate change
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed and reported the recent progress and knowledge on the specific impact of current and projected urban overheating in energy, peak electricity demand, air quality, mortality and morbidity and urban vulnerability.
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Urban heat island mitigation strategies: a state-of-the-art review on Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong
Ardalan Aflaki,Mahsan Mirnezhad,Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini,Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini,Ali GhaffarianHoseini,Hossein Omrany,Zhi-Hua Wang,Hashem Akbari +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comparative analysis to provide a state-of-the-art review of the recent attempts towards mitigating the urban heat island (UHI) effect in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
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Measuring the Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation
TL;DR: The article first clarifies the confusion in the literature about related terms and makes a proposal for a more consistent terminological framework, then emphasizes the importance of working in a multiple-objective–multiple-impact framework.
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Health effects of fine particulate air pollution: lines that connect
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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.