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20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Policy Global Survey 2015 Assessment Project Report
As reported by diverse scientific and health research organizations (including the World Health Organization), climate change poses a central and increasing threat to the health of the world’s people in this century. However, little is known about how national governments are planning for this unprecedented public health challenge. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Urban Green Spaces and an Integrative Approach to Sustainable Environment
This paper explains the benefits and challenges of urban green spaces based on the critical discussion of study results from different studies in different cities. The important roles played by green spaces are social, economic, cultural and environmental aspects of sustainable development. Urban green spaces can be a comprehensive ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: Climate Change and Human Health
This document presents the proceedings from the American Thoracic Society Climate Change and Respiratory Health Workshop that was held on May 15, 2010, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The purpose of the one-day meeting was to address the threat to global respiratory health posed by climate change. Domestic and international experts as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Analysis of Health Impacts and Safety Risks and Other Issues/Concerns Related to the Transport, Handling, Transloading, and Storage of Coal and/or Petroleum Coke (Petcoke) in Oakland and at the Proposed Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal
This report prepared for Oakland City Council presents the health risks of coal transport through Oakland. There is substantial evidence that the proposed transport, handling, transloading, storage, and export of coal through the bulk and oversized terminal proposed at the site of the decommissioned Oakland Army Base would endanger ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Another View: Fracking threatens our children’s health
This brief opinion piece appeared in the Sacramento Bee in August 2015 discussing the health impacts associated with fracking on children. The piece advocates for renewable and clean energy alternatives.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Assets for health: linking vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to climate change
Human health risks and impacts from climate change constitute significant threats. Reducing vulnerability, increasing resilience and improving adaptation to climate change is vital, but what shapes them is still poorly understood. To examine what shapes human vulnerability, resilience and adaptation, and the connections that exist ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Briefing: after the Paris climate talks— what next for migration and displacement linked to climate change?
Climate change has the power to re-shape patterns of migration and displacement across the world. For this reason migration and displacement have been part of the international climate change negotiations for a number of years.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The climate connection: Nurses examine effects of climate change on public health
When Katie Huffling, MS, RN, CNM, worked as nurse midwife in the Washington, D.C., area, she noticed on days with elevated pollution levels that mothers-to-be with previously controlled asthma came into her office wheezing and struggling for breath, putting themselves and the fetuses they were carrying at risk. Huffling adjusted ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Cities, green infrastructure and health
Most people in the UK live in towns and cities and will continue to do so. They need places close to home, in those same towns and cities, where their physical and mental health problems can be addressed. But there is a huge and growing concern about the costs of treating ill health, partially a […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate and Health, Understanding the Risk: An Assessment of San Francisco’s Vulnerability to Flooding & Extreme Storms
Climate change is happening now and faster than expected. For the last decade, cities and states have invested in developing climate action plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet lesser attention has been dedicated to developing adaptive measures to protect the public’s health in the event of climate change-related extreme ...