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Taxonomy Archive: Climate adaptation/resilience
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Labor: Impacts of Heat in the Workplace
Rising heat in the workplace implies severe effects for Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and emerging economies with high concentrations of outdoor labour and industrial and service sector workers operating in ineffectively climate controlled conditions. Its consequences imply effects for a majority of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Zika Goes Viral in the U.S.
A new analysis by Climate Central highlights that the number of days hot and humid enough for mosquitoes to be active and biting has increased in many big US cities—and climate change will further increase those numbers, in most locations. In their analysis, the ten cities with the biggest increase in the length of the […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Scientific Consensus on Maintaining Humanity’s Life Support Systems in the 21st Century: Information for Policy Makers
Earth is rapidly approaching a tipping point. Human impacts are causing alarming levels of harm to our planet. As scientists who study the interaction of people with the rest of the biosphere using a wide range of approaches, we agree that the evidence that humans are damaging their ecological life-support systems is overwhelming. We ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Preparing for Climate Change in California – A Public Health Approach CalBRACE: California Building Resilience against Climate Effects
The goals of the CalBRACE project are to enhance the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) capability to plan for and reduce health risks associated with climate change. The program provides resources and technical assistance for the state and local public health departments to build climate adaptation capacity and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Building Resilience Against Climate Effects: Arizona Extreme Weather, Climate and Health: Synthesis Report 2015
Humans have always been affected by Earth’s environment. However, our risk of harm from environmental hazards may be increasing, as research shows extreme heat events are likely to intensify and occur more often across the globe. Extreme heat events are already of particular concern because of Arizona’s dangerously hot summers. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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BRACE – Illinois
The warming and instability of the climate in the United States is well-established. In the past 25 years, Illinois has experienced the 1993 Mississippi River floods, the 1995 Chicago heat wave, the drought of 2012, the spring floods of 2013, and the arrival of West Nile Virus. Extreme weather events lead to health problems in […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Michigan Climate and Health Profile Report: Building Resilience Against Climate Effects on Michigan’s Health
Through the 20th and into the 21st century, Michigan’s climate has changed in measurable and impactful ways. Since 1951 the average annual temperature has increased by 0.6°F in the southeastern Lower Peninsula, and up to 1.3°F in the northwestern Lower Peninsula. During that same period total annual average precipitation across ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Strategies to Protect Health in a Changing Climate
New York State is working in many ways to address climate change and protect New Yorkers. By working on initiatives and programs which collect and analyze data, New York State is assessing impacts of climate change to better understand, improve, and protect our health. Below are links to statewide, regional, and local initiatives ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate & Health
The Climate-Ready NC program is part of a national public health effort to anticipate and prepare for human health effects related to global and local climate change. Climate-Ready NC is supported by the Climate-Ready States & Cities Initiative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Climate and Health External ...