Climate and Health, Understanding the Risk: An Assessment of San Francisco’s Vulnerability to Flooding & Extreme Storms
- Abstract
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 weather events, or expand the capacity of public health departments to plan and prepare for such events.
- Resource Type
- Report
- Authors
- Matt Wolff Cynthia Comerford
- Date
- 2016
- Institution
- San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Health and Human Impacts
- Dislocation/displacement/migration Heat illness/extreme temperature Water-borne disease
- Climate and Environmental Impact
- Overview/general
- Solution
- Climate adaptation/resilience
- Region
- Southwest