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20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change, Equity, and Health Lessons Learned from Local Planning Efforts in Oregon
In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Brendon Haggerty, Multnomah County Health Department, reviews Oregon’s state and local efforts to address the health impacts of climate change in the Northwest.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: Assessing effects on health and wealth of populations
Can the health consequences of climate change be at the center of discussions at this year’s climate summit in Paris? Very possibly. Pope Francis’ encyclical letter and The Lancet’s excellent report on the topic give us hope. Now the World Federation of Public Health Associations (whose Federation’s Pages we publish in JPHP) ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Do Americans Understand That Global Warming Is Harmful to Human Health? Evidence From a National Survey
Global warming has significant negative consequences for human health, with some groups at greater risk than others. The extent to which the public is aware of these risks is unclear; the limited extant research has yielded discrepant findings.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Doctors call for divestment from fossil fuels
The international divest–invest movement, which has been gaining momentum since it began in 2012, is making in-roads into the medical community. In 2014, the British Medical Association committed to divesting from fossil fuels and The Royal Australasian College of Physicians followed suit in June. The CMA has over $29 million in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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El Nino and climate change—contributing factors in the dispersal of Zika virus in the Americas?
In their letter, Isaac I Bogoch and colleagues anticipated the international spread of Zika virus from Brazil through air traffic. Permissive climatic conditions for Aedes mosquitoes might have contributed to the explosive spread of Zika virus in Brazil. In fact, the 2015 El Niño caused exceptional climatic conditions in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Extreme events as sources of health vulnerability: Drought as an example
The health risks of climate change arise from the interactions of the hazards associated with a changing climate (e.g. increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather and climate events, such as drought), the communities exposed to those hazards, the susceptibility of communities to adverse health impacts when exposed, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food security under climate change
Using food prices to assess climate change impacts on food security is misleading. Differential impacts on income require a broader measure of household well-being, such as changes in absolute poverty.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food, hunger, health, and climate change
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the effects of climate change on food security could be some of the most serious in the near-to-medium term, especially if global mean temperature increases by 3–4°C or more. In The Lancet, Marco Springmann and colleagues dig deeper, and report the most advanced ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Green Infrastructure’s contribution to economic growth: a review
The purpose of this report is to assess whether investment in Green Infrastructure increases economic growth, based on the available evidence. We take Green Infrastructure (GI) to mean a planned approach to the delivery of nature in the city in order to provide benefits to residents. This includes features such as street trees, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Games for a New Climate
This is “Games for a New Climate” by Pardee Center. This video demonstrates how games speed up learning, dialogue and action on climate risks: they involve decisions with consequences, enabling players to inhabit the reality of climate-risk management and test possible future scenarios in a captivating and fun way.