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20 Apr 2018 |
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A Guide for Health Impact Assessment
The intent of the guide is to support current and prospective practititioners of impact assessment in California and the United States, to foster thoughtful and high-quality use of HIA, and to promote consideration of health in all policies. The Guide provides a brief background on HIA, an outline of essential and common tasks in the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Preparing California for Extreme Heat: Guidance and Recommendations
The Climate Action Team’s Public Health Workgroup convened a subcommittee, the Heat Adaptation Workgroup, to develop this document. The Heat Adaption Workgroup was co-chaired by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) and includes staff from multiple State ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Policy Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities
Health inequalities are understood to be unfair and systematic differences in health among and between social groups – differences which need to be addressed through action. These result from social and political circumstances and are therefore potentially avoidable. To address these inequalities, the relationships between the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Report of the Colorado Local Resilience Project
On April 22, 2015, the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization on behalf of the Colorado Climate Network released the report of the Colorado Local Resilience Project, jointly convened by CCN and the Colorado Municipal League (CML) to develop an agenda to help make Colorado communities more resilient to possible climate change impacts, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Sneezing and Wheezing: How Climate Change Could Increase Ragweed Allergies, Air Pollution, and Asthma
2014 was the hottest year on Earth since recordkeeping began in 1880, and ten of the previous warmest years on record occurred since 2000. The scientific consensus is that climate change is the driving force behind these rising temperatures. Scientific studies have also shown that our changing climate could favor the formation of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Report on the Health and/or Safety Impacts Associated with the Transport, Storange, and Handling of Coal and/or Coke in Oakland, Including at the Proposed Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal in the West Gateway Area of the former Oakland Army Base
The purpose of this review is to assist the City in evaluating information in its public record regarding (1) health, safety and/or general welfare evidence that the City Council might consider generally applicable to legislation regulating or banning certain activities regarding coal and coke, e.g., the handling, and storage, and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Regional Climate Action Plan, Health Impact Assessment (HIA): Minimizing the Health Effects of Climate Change in the South Florida Region
The RCAP HIA comprehensively assessed the 110 climate change adaptation and mitigation policy recommendations put forth in the SEFRCCC RCAP to determine the health effects of climate change, specifically sea level rise (SLR) and heat waves. The HIA has the potential to describe the magnitude and distribution of climate change related ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Great American Adaptation Road Trip: Lessons learned about how hometowns across the United States are building their resilience to climate change
Authors Allie Goldstein and Kirsten Howard took to the roads to experience adaptation first hand across the country. They met with farmers in Georgia, planners on Cape Cod, utility executives in Denver, volunteers in New Orleans, and a host of other Americans struggling to cope with the effects of climate change. And they came back ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Our People, Our Planet, Our Power
Over nine months, Puget Sound Sage and Got Green set out to learn how our communities were experiencing climate change. Led by the Climate Justice committee, we interviewed 175 people living in South Seattle/King County and 30 organizations with the goal of determining our collective priorities and lift up the message that poor ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Polling Memo and Summary for California Release: 2015 Environmental Attitudes Survey
Latino Decisions in partnership with Earthjustice and GreenLatinos conducted a national survey of Latino registered voters and their attitudes toward the environment. The survey, fielded between June 24 and July 8, is based on a national sample of 1,200 Latino registered voters who were interviewed by landline, cell and on-line in ...