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Climate Change and Health Policy Global Survey 2015 Assessment Project Report
As reported by diverse scientific and health research organizations (including the World Health Organization), climate change poses a central and increasing threat to the health of the world’s people in this century. However, little is known about how national governments are planning for this unprecedented public health challenge. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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An Assessment of the Health and Safety Implications of Coal Transport through Oakland
A panel of public health experts considered the health and safety implications related to the potential transport, storage and handling of coal at the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal (OBOT) proposed to be constructed on the former Oakland Army Base. The panel reviewed evidence submitted to the Oakland City Council in conjunction ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: Climate Change and Human Health
This document presents the proceedings from the American Thoracic Society Climate Change and Respiratory Health Workshop that was held on May 15, 2010, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The purpose of the one-day meeting was to address the threat to global respiratory health posed by climate change. Domestic and international experts as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Analysis of Health Impacts and Safety Risks and Other Issues/Concerns Related to the Transport, Handling, Transloading, and Storage of Coal and/or Petroleum Coke (Petcoke) in Oakland and at the Proposed Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal
This report prepared for Oakland City Council presents the health risks of coal transport through Oakland. There is substantial evidence that the proposed transport, handling, transloading, storage, and export of coal through the bulk and oversized terminal proposed at the site of the decommissioned Oakland Army Base would endanger ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Towards an EU Research and Innovation policy agenda for Nature-Based Solutions & Re-Naturing Cities
Nature-based solutions simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits by bringing more nature and natural features and processes into cities, landscapes and seascapes. The Horizon 2020 Expert Group on ‘Nature-Based Solutions and Re-Naturing Cities’, chaired by Dr. Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General of the ...
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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Case Studies Series: Using Health Impact Assessment to Identify the Best Investment in Energy Efficiency and Health
Despite the recent decrease in the cost of utility service for many Americans, access to reliable, affordable heat, air-conditioning, and lights remains a challenge and an underappreciated social determinant of health related to housing. Renewable energy and sustainability mandates, climate change planning, and infrastructure ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Cities, green infrastructure and health
Most people in the UK live in towns and cities and will continue to do so. They need places close to home, in those same towns and cities, where their physical and mental health problems can be addressed. But there is a huge and growing concern about the costs of treating ill health, partially a […]
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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Shocke Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty
Ending poverty and addressing climate change are the two defining issues of our time. Both are essential to achieving sustainable global development. But they cannot be considered in isolation. This report brings together these two overarching objectives and explores how they can be more easily achieved if considered together. It ...