TY - JOUR
T1 - Climate change and health in cities
T2 - Impacts of heat and air pollution and potential co-benefits from mitigation and adaptation
AU - Harlan, Sharon
AU - Ruddell, Darren M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant No. GEO-0816168 , Urban Vulnerability to Climate Change. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. We thank Genevieve Luikart for research assistance in preparing this article.
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - Excess morbidity and mortality related to extremely hot weather and poor air quality are found in cities worldwide. This is a major public health concern for cities now and looking toward the future because the interactions of global climate change, urban heat islands, and air pollution are predicted to place increasing health burdens on cities. The proposed mitigation and adaptation strategies in cities' climate risk management plans may produce health co-benefits by reducing emissions and cooling temperatures through changes in the built environment. There are challenges, however, to implementing the plans and the most widely documented beneficial policy to date is the adoption of heat warning and air quality alert systems to trigger emergency responses.
AB - Excess morbidity and mortality related to extremely hot weather and poor air quality are found in cities worldwide. This is a major public health concern for cities now and looking toward the future because the interactions of global climate change, urban heat islands, and air pollution are predicted to place increasing health burdens on cities. The proposed mitigation and adaptation strategies in cities' climate risk management plans may produce health co-benefits by reducing emissions and cooling temperatures through changes in the built environment. There are challenges, however, to implementing the plans and the most widely documented beneficial policy to date is the adoption of heat warning and air quality alert systems to trigger emergency responses.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2011.01.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2011.01.001
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:79955640801
SN - 1877-3435
VL - 3
SP - 126
EP - 134
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
IS - 3
ER -