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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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Numerical characterization of spatial and temporal evolution of summer urban heat island intensity in São Paulo, Brazil
Arissa Sary Umezaki,Flávia Noronha Dutra Ribeiro,Amauri Pereira de Oliveira,Jacyra Soares,Regina Maura de Miranda +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the WRF model to simulate the air temperature field in January in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for 10 consecutive years (2004-2013) and to estimate the intensity of the urban heat island (UHI).
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Exposure to green areas: Modelling health benefits in a context of study heterogeneity
Aline Chiabai,Sonia Quiroga,Pablo Martinez-Juarez,Cristina Suárez,Silvestre García de Jalón,Tim Taylor +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Heckman selection model was applied to find evidence of key patterns emerging throughout the literature and identify main determinants affecting the relationship. But, the authors pointed out that there is no unique and clear evidence.
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Research trends on environmental, energy and vulnerability impacts of Urban Heat Islands: An overview
Marcos Eduardo González-Trevizo,K.E. Martinez-Torres,J.F. Armendariz-Lopez,Mattheos Santamouris,Gonzalo Bojórquez-Morales,A. Luna-Leon +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address systematically 171 relevant studies to identify and characterize gaps in the field of knowledge, through a robust evidence-based analysis focused on identifying taxonomic recurrences, trends in the study of urban fields of impact, global leaderships, mitigation strategies, methodological divergences, remote sensing indexes, data sources, legal frame, among other significant aspects on the context of environmental degradation and energy.
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Twin climate cities—an exploratory study of their potential use for awareness-raising and urban adaptation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the potential use of the climate twins approach for the development of adaptation strategies to climate change in urban areas and propose an innovative and robust climate-matching method that is suitable to link cities' current and future climates.
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Modeling the effects of green alternative on heat island mitigation of a meso level town, West Bengal, India
Sk Ziaul,Swades Pal +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the implication of green infrastructure of the town on enhanced microclimatic condition and evaluated the best suitable mitigation strategy modelling cool city with ENVI-met software (V4).
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