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Moving in a hotter world: Maintaining adequate childhood fitness as a climate change countermeasure

… summarize how aerobic fitness can modulate hyperthermia, heat tolerance, and behavioral thermoregulation in this … of slight alterations in their body proportions and heat loss mechanisms compared to fully mature humans. … temperatures. Physical fitness has a direct impact on heat tolerance, yet children are less fit and more obese than …
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The coldest year of the rest of their lives: Protecting children from the escalating impacts of heatwaves

… reduction, to prevent the worst impacts of the other high heat measures. Millions more children will be exposed to high … 9 Introduction ................................. 11 BOX: Heat and heatwave measures and defining 2050 scenarios … Children’s exposure to high heat measures ..............28 Chapter 2 We must act now: …

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