City Resilience Toolkit: Response to Deadly Heat Waves and Preparing for Rising Temperatures
- Abstract
Climate change poses signifi cant challenges to cities. As urban populations continue to grow, the need for cities and their residents to adapt to climate change and its impacts becomes increasingly urgent. Extreme heat is one of the health threats already challenging cities in India and around the world.
- Resource Type
- Report
- Author
- Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
- Date
- Dec 8, 2015
- Institution
- NRDC
- Organization Type
- Ngo
- Health and Human Impact
- Heat illness/extreme temperature
- Climate and Environmental Impacts
- Heat Wildfires
- Solutions
- Built environment Climate adaptation/resilience Urban greening
- Other
- Climate action plans