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Lu Wang
In the context of climate change, heat waves are a serious hazard having significant impacts on human health, especially vulnerable populations. Many studies have researched the association between extreme heat and mortality. In the context of urban plan...
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Robert Dare
This article presents a customized system dynamics model to facilitate the informed development of policy for urban heat island mitigation within the context of future climate change, and with special emphasis on the reduction of heat-related mortality. ...
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Matthaios Santamouris and Paul Osmond
Urban vegetation provides undeniable benefits to urban climate, health, thermal comfort and environmental quality of cities and represents one of the most considered urban heat mitigation measures. Despite the plethora of available scientific information...
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Patrick L. Kinney
High temperatures have large impacts on premature mortality risks across the world, and there is concern that warming temperatures associated with climate change, and in particular larger-than-expected increases in the proportion of days with extremely h...
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Jonathon Taylor, Phil Symonds, Paul Wilkinson, Clare Heaviside, Helen Macintyre, Michael Davies, Anna Mavrogianni and Emma Hutchinson
Mortality rates rise during hot weather in England, and projected future increases in heatwave frequency and intensity require the development of heat protection measures such as the adaptation of housing to reduce indoor overheating. We apply a combined...
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Stefan Muthers, Gudrun Laschewski and Andreas Matzarakis
After 2003, another hot summer took place in Western and Central Europe in 2015. In this study, we compare the characteristics of the two major heat waves of these two summers and their effect on the heat related mortality. The analysis is performed with...
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Polioptro F. Martinez-Austria and Erick R. Bandala
Extreme temperatures and heat wave trends in five cities within the Sonoran Desert region (e.g., Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, in the United States and Ciudad Obregon and San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora; and Mexicali, Baja California, in Mexico) and one cit...
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Reija Ruuhela, Kirsti Jylhä, Timo Lanki, Pekka Tiittanen and Andreas Matzarakis
Climate change is expected to increase heat-related and decrease cold-related mortality. The extent of acclimatization of the population to gradually-changing thermal conditions is not well understood. We aimed to define the relationship between mortalit...
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Jungeun Kim, Kyoung Jun Song, Ki Jeong Hong and Young Sun Ro
Climate change can have serious impacts on human health, resulting in increased healthcare utilization. Many studies on the relationship between mortality and temperature exist, but few studies focus on heat related outbreaks. Our objective was to verify...
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Ale? Urban, Katrin Burkart, Jan Kyselý, Christian Schuster, Eva Plavcová, Hana Hanzlíková, Petr ?tepánek and Tobia Lakes
The study examines spatial patterns of effects of high temperature extremes on cardiovascular mortality in the Czech Republic at a district level during 1994?2009. Daily baseline mortality for each district was determined using a single location-stratifi...
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