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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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Daytime cooling efficiency and diurnal energy balance in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the urban energy balance for two summer days in 2005 to analyze the daytime cooling-water use tradeoff and the timing of sensible heat reversal at night.
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Developing Vulnerability Index to Quantify Urban Heat Islands Effects Coupled with Air Pollution: A Case Study of Camden, NJ
TL;DR: This paper focuses on studying a coupled effect of Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) and Ozone-PM2.5 pollution at the neighborhood-scale in the city of Camden, using fine scale remotely sensed land-surface temperature and air quality data from the CMAQ Modelling System in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) platform.
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Urban Green Spaces and the Potential for Health Improvement and Environmental Justice in a Changing Climate
TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of the relationship between nature-based solutions and urban health is presented, where an unequal distribution of urban green area may be linked to an insufficient provision of ecosystem services and the related positive health outcome effect.
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Estimating the Cooling Effect of Pocket Green Space in High Density Urban Areas in Shanghai, China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors applied a set of cooling effect indicators to estimate the cooling extent, cooling intensity, and cooling efficiency of pocket green spaces (PGS), and further examined whether and how landscape features within and surrounding the PGS influence its cooling effects.
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Transdisciplinary forward-looking agenda setting for age-friendly, human centered cities
TL;DR: A case study of a participatory foresight project that investigates how transdisciplinary agenda setting through the means of including citizens, experts and stakeholders can provide orientation for long-term planning on the future of ageing in the city and results enforce the argument that urban governance needs to address additional tasks whilst adapting to challenges arising from ageing societies and urbanisation.
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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.