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Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

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The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been formed to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in order to ensure the highest attainable stand-alone position on climate change.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-11-07 and is currently open access. It has received 1198 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Political economy of climate change & Health policy.

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Relationships between landscape characteristics and the restorative quality of soundscapes in urban blue spaces

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored the specific effects of audio-visual combinations on the restorative quality of soundscapes in blue spaces and found that the sound of river sound was the sound with the highest quality, followed by fountain sound and stream sound.
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Climate change and human health in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East: Literature review, research priorities and policy suggestions

TL;DR: In this article , the authors proposed several research priorities for the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME) region, including the generation of more empirical evidence on exposure-response functions involving climate change and specific health outcomes, the development of appropriate methodologies to evaluate the physical and psychological effects of climate change on vulnerable populations, determining how climate change alters the ecological determinants of human health, improving our understanding of the effects of long-term exposure to heat stress and air pollution, and evaluating the interactions between adaptation and mitigation strategies.
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Political leadership on climate change: the role of health in Obama-era U.S. climate policies

TL;DR: The United States of America under the leadership of the Obama administration as discussed by the authors has shown that strong political leadership constitutes an essential element in the pursuit of increasingly ambitious climate change policies, particularly in the face of strong opposition.
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Associations between Green Building Design Strategies and Community Health Resilience to Extreme Heat Events: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

TL;DR: Evidence linking green building design strategies with the potential to enhance community resilience to extreme heat events and the strength of the evidence supporting the potential for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design credit requirements to reduce the adverse effects of extremeHeat events and/or enhance a building’s passive survivability during those events is examined.
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Summary for Policymakers

TL;DR: The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) as mentioned in this paper identifies strategies that could help resolve the multiple challenges simultaneously and bring multiple benefits, including sustainable economic and social development, poverty eradication, adequate food production and food security, health for all, climate protection, conservation of ecosystems, and security.
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The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

TL;DR: The Stern Review as discussed by the authors is an independent, rigourous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of this crucial issue, conducted by Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the UK Government Economic Service, and a former Chief Economist of the World Bank.
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A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

Stephen S Lim, +210 more
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs; sum of years lived with disability [YLD] and years of life lost [YLL]) attributable to the independent effects of 67 risk factors and clusters of risk factors for 21 regions in 1990 and 2010.
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World Energy Outlook

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