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Taxonomy Archive: Climate adaptation/resilience
20 Apr 2018 |
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As Temperatures Climb Across the Country, Workers Will Suffer
This blog post reviews the health risks to workers as the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events increases due to climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Assets for health: linking vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to climate change
Human health risks and impacts from climate change constitute significant threats. Reducing vulnerability, increasing resilience and improving adaptation to climate change is vital, but what shapes them is still poorly understood. To examine what shapes human vulnerability, resilience and adaptation, and the connections that exist ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Building Community Preparedness to Extreme Heat
On May 26, 2016 the National Security Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy held a webinar focused on building community preparedness to extreme heat as part of FEMA’s PrepareAthon Extreme Heat Week. The webinar was planned as part of an interagency collaboration (including NOAA, CDC, FEMA, DOD, OSHA, SAMHSA, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate and Health, Understanding the Risk: An Assessment of San Francisco’s Vulnerability to Flooding & Extreme Storms
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 ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Children’s Health: A Commentary
This commentary describes the likely impacts on children’s health and wellbeing from climate change, based on the solid science of environmental child health. It describes likely climate change scenarios, why children are more vulnerable than older people to these changes, and what to expect in terms of diseases (e.g., ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Inequities: A Framework for Action
Climate change has been identified as the greatest health challenge of the 21st century. Recently released reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. National Climate Assessment summarize the current effects of climate change on health, projections that these effects will surely increase, and the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health: Transcending Silos to Find Solutions
Climate change has myriad implications for the health of humans, our ecosystems, and the ecological processes that sustain them. Projections of rising greenhouse gas emissions suggest increasing direct and indirect burden of infectious and noninfectious disease, effects on food and water security, and other societal disruptions. As ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and human survival
The IPCC has already concluded that it is “virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system” and that it is “extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010” is anthropogenic. Its new report outlines the future threats of further ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Patient Facts: Climate Change and Your Health
There is clear proof that the world’s climate is changing. These changes will affect the usual, expected weather patterns. They are caused by human activities, like operating factories, driving vehicles, and pollution. Climate change could have a serious effect on the health of the public.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: Health Impacts and Opportunities
The most recent report from Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCCWG2), Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, describes in worrying detail, the current and future impacts of climate change; as well as the challenges we face in mitigating further climate change and adapting to its ...