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Displaying 15 of about 41 results… in Western India is preparing for the increasingly extreme heat of the city which becomes more frequent globally due to … to prepare local communities for increasingly extreme heat in the city of Ahmedabad, through an early warning system and heat preparedness plan. It argues that climate change is …
… Extreme heat is the most widespread and deadly weather-related hazard … for mitigation. This report outlines how extreme heat will affect the real estate and land use sectors and … positive impact of the real estate sector in implementing “heat-resilient” building designs and land uses. The report …
… change is increased occurrence and intensity of extreme heat events. The evolution of extreme heat risk in cities depends on the interactions of … effects of climate change, population growth, and urban heat mitigation measures, such as cool roofs, on exposure to …
… how local governments in Canada are adapting to extreme heat and the increasing risk of extreme events due to climate … and implementation of actions to address extreme heat risks. This report helps to raise awareness of health risks from extreme heat, offers examples of heat-health adaptation and is …
… the main discussions and outcomes from The Extreme Heat: Hot Cities-Adapting to a Hotter World symposium … highlight both the short- and long-term impacts of extreme heat and the risks of not taking action. The urban heat island effect exacerbates global-scale rises in …
… final recommendations for adaptation measures to flood and heat wave events in Cần Thơ. Stakeholders were asked to provide … assessed. A total of 17 adaptation measures for flood and heat waves were identified and validated using the modelling …
… This study seeks to carry out an assessment of the urban heat islands (UHI) phenomena, alongside a vulnerability … … This study seeks to carry out an assessment of the urban heat islands (UHI) phenomena, alongside a vulnerability …
… heatwaves as their high built density absorbs and retains heat, leading to higher temperatures than the surrounding areas and causing the ‘heat island’ effect. India’s northwest region routinely … heatwaves, city administrations must prepare and implement heat action plans and modify cities’ overall planning. … This …
… Cities are particularly vulnerable to heat waves. Despite this, no comprehensive methodology has been developed to assess the costs of heat stress on city economies either currently or under … under climate change. Results show that the impacts of heat on the urban economy are highly variable and depend on …
… causes vulnerable social groups to be at greater risk of heat-related morbidity and mortality in Australian cities. It … urban surface temperatures and social groups vulnerable to heat-related morbidity and mortality as a way to enable governments to identify ‘hot spots’ for priority heat prevention and intervention, as well as the development …
… Extreme heat in cities poses a significant threat to public health … in people’s yards at reducing day time and night time heat during an extreme heatwave event in Western Adelaide. … decreasing urban land surface temperature during extreme heat. Ambitious canopy cover targets (e.g., doubling of the …
… due to the effects of global warming and the urban heat island effect and needs to be addressed through climate … been utilised for long-term planning for city-scale urban heat risk management. This paper applies adaptation pathway methodology to urban heat risk management. It uses spatially coherent downscaled …
… Human exposure to dangerous heat, driven by climatic and demographic changes, is … to face significantly increased exposure to dangerous heat in the coming decades. This … pathways in order to explore future exposure to dangerous heat across 173 large African cities. Employing multiple …
… a well-established metric denoting the lowest risk of heat-related mortality, as a function of climate change and … 3820 cities. The analysis notes that human adaptation to heat should be accounted in inferring on the magnitude of … indicators such as threshold values defining national heat-wave warnings18, hence indicating that heat adaptation is …
… in the United States. It provides data on the number of heat-related illnesses and deaths in the country and … Agreement. Projections of summertime deaths due to extreme heat were made based on the weather classification system … In many areas, warming will be compounded by the urban heat island effect. It also finds an increase in excess …