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Displaying 8 of about 8 results… report examines the health consequences of extreme urban heat and the priorities for action and research to mitigate … storm” of risks to global health, particularly from urban heat. This report highlights that the health risks of heat … islands on mortality in Paris during the August 2003 heat wave. Environ Health Perspect 2012;120:254-9. …
… objective is to define and divulgate the knowledge about heat stress and health consequences in general for the … a well established public health threat.1 When exposed to heat, human thermoregulation, that is, the body temperature … 4 Robinson, P. J. (2001). On the Definition of a Heat Wave. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 40(4), …
… economic contribution. Climate change impacts — including heat stress, downpours, floods, and clean water scarcity — … economic contribution. Climate change impacts — including heat stress, downpours, floods, and clean water scarcity — … address them (Box 1). Problems worsen with climate change Heat stress Many informal urban workers in India and Zimbabwe …
… S. (2014). Chapter 5: Vulnerability assessment to heat waves, floods, and earthquakes using the MOVE Framework: …
… 1 3 indicator performance for each district through the heat-map table. The cells highlighted in red—clustered at the … Muzaffargarh, Rahim Yar Khan, and Rajanpur). Fig. 5 Heat-map representing the individual indicator score for each …
… the worst death toll in the country in the first wave, followed by a huge epidemic of social and mental health …
… emissions and increasing resilience to floods and extreme heat. A pilot project of urban horticulture in three public …
… characterised by “more poverty, air pollution, extreme heat and flood damage, and less access to health care and …