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20 Apr 2018 |
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Achieving a Climate for Health: Philanthropy to Promote Health and Justice through the Challenges of Climate Change
Written for philanthropists, this report is designed to introduce grantmakers to issues and opportunities that lie at the intersection of climate change and health. A brief review of climate change basics and the impacts of climate change on health, as well as a review of the landscap of philanthropic opportunities.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Are we ready? Preparing for the public health challenges of climate change.
A report on the results of a survey of a representative sample of local health departments from around the county, about their perception of climate-related health risks and the status and adequacy of their departments’ programmtic activities in response to these risks.This report points to critical gaps in resources, programs, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Urban Heat Island Mitigation Can Improve New York City’s Environment: Research on the Impacts of Mitigation Strategies on the Urban Environment
This report discusses green “living” roofs and “cool” highly reflective roofs—building technologies that may offer solutions to ameliorate urban heat island effects and its consequences. This report has a relatively narrow goal: to focus on why these particular technologies may be incorporated into ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The heat is on: climate change and heatwaves in the Midwest
Midwestern cities are very likely to experience more frequent, longer, and hotter heatwaves.
20 Apr 2018 |
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American Climate Values 2014: insights by racial and ethnic groups
The 2014 American Climate Values survey oversampled three American racial and ethnic groups: African, Asian,and Hispanic/Latino Americans to analyze if and how they differ from national averages and each other in how they understand and respond to climate change. In addition to the applicable consensus, demographic, and psychographic ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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American Climate Values 2014 Supplement: Faith and Climate Highlights
This document has four sections. Part I provides context on how the demographics of people of faith compare to the general public. Part II examines how religious and non-religious Americans respond to a variety of climate-related survey questions, including whether climate change is happening and whether humans can make a difference ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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American Climate Values 2014: psychographic and demographic insights
This first release contains basic demographic findings on climate change as well as the general 2014 values findings.The demographic findings, on pages 7-20, are dominated by political findings. Republicans are quite divided on the reality, causes and consequences of climate change, while Democrats have a more uniform perspective. In ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Beyond Storms & Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change
This report the likely psychological impacts of climate change, from stress, anxiety and depression, to loss of community identity, to increases in violence and aggression. It discusses the pathways through which these and other impacts on human well-being will arise, why some communities will be hit harder than others, and how ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and California’s local public health agencies
This paper presents the results from a survey of local Health Officers. The intent of the survey was to learn more about perceptions of the public health threat from, and preparation for, climate change among California’s local public health agencies. The survey found that local public health officials believe that climate change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States: And Why the U.S. Mental Health Care System Is Not Adequately Prepared
This report aims both to fill in the gap in our awareness of the psychological impacts of climate change, and by exposing the emotional side of the issue, to find the place in our hearts that mobilizes us to fly into action, forewarned, determined, relentless. It also is a call for professionals in the mental […]