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20 Apr 2018 |
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Addressing Social Vulnerability and Equity in Climate Change Adaptation Planning
As planning for sea level rise and extreme storm events moves forward, so too should state objectives for achieving environmental justice and equity for all Californians. The purpose of this white paper is to highlight the links between equity and planning for sea level rise and storm events and is designed to inform the Adapting ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Shocke Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty
Ending poverty and addressing climate change are the two defining issues of our time. Both are essential to achieving sustainable global development. But they cannot be considered in isolation. This report brings together these two overarching objectives and explores how they can be more easily achieved if considered together. It ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heat Alert and Response Systems to Protect Health: Best Practices Guidebook
Extreme heat poses growing risks to the health of Canadians. Public health and emergency management officials in several Canadian communities are developing interventions to reduce heat-health risks and to prepare for the expected increase in the frequency, duration and severity of extreme heat events due to climate change. To help ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate and Health Program Publications
A collection of climate and health program publications including, climate vulnerability assessments, climate and disease assessments, climate intervention plans and assessments, climate adaptation plans, and climate project evaulation plans
20 Apr 2018 |
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How Public Health can Address Climate Change
Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are increasing the earth’s temperature, resulting in extreme weather events that have serious health consequences. Vulnerable communities will likely have some of the greatest exposures to climate‐related health impacts and the fewest resources to confront them. This is a public health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate hotspots: key vulnerable regions, climate change and limits to warming
Defining and operationalizing Article 2 of the UNFCCC remains a challenge. The question of what is dangerous climate change is not a purely scientific one, as danger necessarily has a subjective dimension and its definition requires judgment and precaution. The papers in this special issue of Regional Environmental Change attempt to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Neighborhood Effects on Heat Deaths: Social and Environmental Predictors of Vulnerability in Maricopa County, Arizona
Background: Most heat-related deaths occur in cities, and future trends in global climate change and urbanization may amplify this trend. Understanding how neighborhoods affect heat mortality fills an important gap between studies of individual susceptibility to heat and broadly comparative studies of temperature–mortality ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Assessing climate change and health vulnerability at the local level: Travis County, Texas
We created a measure to help comprehend population vulnerability to potential flooding and excessive heat events using health, built environment and social factors. Through principal component analysis (PCA), we created non-weighted sum index scores of literature-reviewed social and built environment characteristics. We created ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Minnesota Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment 2014
The Minnesota Department of Health conducted a climate change vulnerability assessment to assess population vulnerabiliies by county based on retrospective data for estreme heat events, air pollution, vector-borne diseases, flooding, and drought. Includes a literature review of vulnerable populations and methodologies for conducting ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate and Health- Understanding the Risk: An Assessment of San Francisco’s Vulnerability to Extreme Heat Events
This report provides an overview of the San Francisco Department of Health’s approach to identifying and planning for vulnerability to extreme heat events and associated air quality issues, including the developmnt of a Heat Vulnerability Index