Excess mortality related to the August 2003 heat wave in France

Fouillet, Anne; Rey, Grégoire; Laurent, F; Pavillon, Gérard; Bellec, Stéphanie; Guihenneuc‐Jouyaux, Chantal; Clavel, Jacqueline; Jougla, Éric; Hémon, Denis

doi:10.1007/s00420-006-0089-4

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“…Heat-waves like that of 2003 in Europe would become common: in the A2 emission scenario, with an average of 30 days of heat-wave conditions in the north of France (Déqué 2007). Limiting the consequences of such heat-waves is a major health challenge (Scott et al 2004): 8,000 deaths were attributed to the 2003 heat-wave in the Paris urban area (Fouillet et al 2006).…”

Section: Heat-waves Urban Heat Island and Urban Vegetationmentioning

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“Grand Paris”: regional landscape change to adapt city to climate warming

Masson

Lion²,

Ambenje³

et al. 2012

Climatic Change

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"Grand Paris" is a study carried out by ten teams of researchers and city planners in the aim of putting forward general guidelines for Paris urban area's evolution by 2030. All the teams suggest making the area "greener" in some way, to combat climate warming by CO 2 sequestration. Our team also shows that extending the nearby forests by 30 %, favouring short farm-to-consumer circuits and using lighter coloured building materials will decrease the urban heat island, reducing the mortality during heat waves as well as the need for air-conditioning. These results lead us to reverse the way of thinking urban planning: the geographic and natural aspects should replace the urban infrastructure as a driver for planning urban development. This new strategy allows city changes on quite a large scale, that will have a favourable impact in terms of economics, leisure activities, greenhouse gas emissions and the local microclimate.

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Section: Heat-waves Urban Heat Island and Urban Vegetationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Grand Paris”: regional landscape change to adapt city to climate warming

Masson

Lion²,

Ambenje³

et al. 2012

Climatic Change

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“…EuroHEAT followed up on the growing evidence that the combined effect of heatwaves and peaks of ozone or particulate matter smaller than 10 μm (PM 0 ) increases mortality, particularly among the elderly (75-84 years) (6)(7)(8).…”

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Prevention and management of health hazards related to heatwaves

Matthies

Menne

2009

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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Objectives. The general aim of the EuroHEAT project was to improve public health responses to weather extremes and, in particular, to heatwaves. Study design. The public health responses were developed on the basis of the overall results from the two-year project, "Improving Public Health Responses to Extreme Weather -Euro-HEAT," co-funded by the European Commission (DG Sanco). Methods. A literature review was carried out and a questionnaire was administered to health officials in charge of heat-health action plans in 2005 to survey existing heat-health action plans in Europe, and to identify models of the good practices for national/local preparedness planning. Results. The adverse health effects of heatwaves are largely preventable. Prevention requires a range of actions at different levels: from health system preparedness coordinated with meteorological early warning systems to timely public and medical advice and improvements to housing and urban planning. These actions can be integrated in a defined heat-health action plan. Guidance for the development of heat-health action plans has been made available through EuroHEAT and is being used in various countries in the European Region. Conclusions. EuroHEAT recommends developing and implementing heat-health action plans at the national and regional levels in Europe to prevent, react upon and contain heatrelated risks to health.

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“…These ambiguities in the SAR conclusions led to a number of workshops and globally co-ordinated efforts, which have made significant progress in our analysis of extremes (Nicholls and Alexander, 2007). In addition, extreme events in recent years have not only been extremely damaging but also in some cases have caused unprecedented mortality such as the extreme European heat of the 2003 summer (Foullet et al, 2007) and the intense hurricane season of 2005 (Trenberth and Shea, 2006) and have been a catalyst for more urgent analysis of the relationship between extreme weather and climate change.…”

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