TY - JOUR
T1 - Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes
T2 - from personal cooling strategies to green cities
AU - Jay, Ollie
AU - Capon, Anthony
AU - Berry, Peter
AU - Broderick, Carolyn
AU - de Dear, Richard
AU - Havenith, George
AU - Honda, Yasushi
AU - Kovats, R. Sari
AU - Ma, Wei
AU - Malik, Arunima
AU - Morris, Nathan B.
AU - Nybo, Lars
AU - Seneviratne, Sonia I.
AU - Vanos, Jennifer
AU - Ebi, Kristie L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/8/21
Y1 - 2021/8/21
N2 - Heat extremes (ie, heatwaves) already have a serious impact on human health, with ageing, poverty, and chronic illnesses as aggravating factors. As the global community seeks to contend with even hotter weather in the future as a consequence of global climate change, there is a pressing need to better understand the most effective prevention and response measures that can be implemented, particularly in low-resource settings. In this Series paper, we describe how a future reliance on air conditioning is unsustainable and further marginalises the communities most vulnerable to the heat. We then show that a more holistic understanding of the thermal environment at the landscape and urban, building, and individual scales supports the identification of numerous sustainable opportunities to keep people cooler. We summarise the benefits (eg, effectiveness) and limitations of each identified cooling strategy, and recommend optimal interventions for settings such as aged care homes, slums, workplaces, mass gatherings, refugee camps, and playing sport. The integration of this information into well communicated heat action plans with robust surveillance and monitoring is essential for reducing the adverse health consequences of current and future extreme heat.
AB - Heat extremes (ie, heatwaves) already have a serious impact on human health, with ageing, poverty, and chronic illnesses as aggravating factors. As the global community seeks to contend with even hotter weather in the future as a consequence of global climate change, there is a pressing need to better understand the most effective prevention and response measures that can be implemented, particularly in low-resource settings. In this Series paper, we describe how a future reliance on air conditioning is unsustainable and further marginalises the communities most vulnerable to the heat. We then show that a more holistic understanding of the thermal environment at the landscape and urban, building, and individual scales supports the identification of numerous sustainable opportunities to keep people cooler. We summarise the benefits (eg, effectiveness) and limitations of each identified cooling strategy, and recommend optimal interventions for settings such as aged care homes, slums, workplaces, mass gatherings, refugee camps, and playing sport. The integration of this information into well communicated heat action plans with robust surveillance and monitoring is essential for reducing the adverse health consequences of current and future extreme heat.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01209-5
DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01209-5
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34419206
AN - SCOPUS:85113172211
SN - 0140-6736
VL - 398
SP - 709
EP - 724
JO - The Lancet
JF - The Lancet
IS - 10301
ER -