Impacts of heat waves and corresponding measures: a review

Zuo, Jian; Pullen, Stephen; Palmer, J.; Bennetts, Helen; Chileshe, Nicholas; Ma, Tony

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.12.078

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“…There is little doubt that the increased frequency of hot days and warm spells will exacerbate the UHI effects [10], causing health problems [65]. Zuo et al [66] provide a comprehensive review of the impacts of heat waves and corresponding measures. According to this review, a heat wave will often involve a combination of environmental factors (such as temperature, humidity, radiation, and wind speed) and social or cultural factors.…”

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“…Considerations for extending this research include: investigating the association of socioeconomic variables such as income [19] and isolation [24] with mortality [27]; accounting for harvesting [24]; estimating disaggregate models identifying and marking the appearance and duration of heatwaves, as discussed by Nastos and Matzarakis [30]; and assessing the effect of vegetative and albedo interventions on heat-related mortality [66].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Mortality Associated with High Ambient Temperatures, Heatwaves, and the Urban Heat Island in Athens, Greece

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Climate change looms as the biggest threat of the 21st century, and its effect on urban mortality is exacerbated by urban heat islands. This study analyzes the impact of high temperatures, heatwaves, and the urban heat island on the cardiovascular and respiratory mortality of people over 65 years of age for the years 2002 to 2012. The area of application is Athens, Greece, an urban agglomeration experiencing an urban heat island of high intensity. The correlation of the daily cardiovascular and respiratory mortality count of people over 65 years of age with various temperature measures confirmed a U-shaped exposure response curve, with fewer deaths in the range of moderate temperatures. At high and very high temperatures, this mortality increased by 20% to 35% correspondingly, at a 99.9% significance level. Mortality was further investigated with ordinary least squares, Poisson, and negative binomial times series models, which, although suffering from poor fit, showed a one-day lag for the maximum temperature effect on mortality. Finally, cluster analysis for observations confined to May to September, confirmed by multiple discriminant analysis, showed the existence of six clusters, with the highest excess mortality count of 23% for the cluster that included the hottest days and 20.6% for the heatwave cluster. To this end, it is recommended that policies target high ambient temperatures and heatwaves as a priority.

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Mortality Associated with High Ambient Temperatures, Heatwaves, and the Urban Heat Island in Athens, Greece

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“…Technical solutions are applied independently for flood risk [35], heatwave [36], drought [37] etc. However territories are subject to multiple risks and some technical solutions implemented to tackle one issue may strengthen or weaken the resilience of a territory regarding other hazards.…”

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Building resilient and sustainable: a need to decompartementalise the researches

Cariolet¹,

Vuillet²,

Colombert³

et al. 2016

E3S Web Conf.

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Abstract. For several years now, building resilient and building sustainable are two of the main challenges of urban planning in cities. Though, both challenges are usually treated separately at the operational scale, which may imply antagonisms or synergies. From a review of the literature, this paper highlights the fact that there is a need to ³GHFRPSDUWPHQWDOLVH´ researches on resilience and energy efficiency to provide integrated professional tools for the design of future urban developments, especially in flood zones. In order to improve both resilience and energy efficiency, it appears that networks are key elements.

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“…These vulnerable groups include infants, elderly, people with disabilities and health problems [2,6,[8][9][10] and poor people and low-income groups. Low-income groups are among the most vulnerable to heat events due to their limitation to meet energy costs, their dependency on public facilities and problems in access to proper health care services [6].…”

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“…Adaptation practices can take place at a different level from individual and household level to the community and institutional level. According to Jian Zuo et al "The common mechanisms to deal with heat waves and the associated consequences include: structural/institutional, technological and cultural/behavioral" [10]. However, as Bolitho and Miller [23] argue, responses to extreme heat reflect a tension between a risk management paradigm (heat as an emergency) and a social vulnerability perspective (heat as chronic stress), whereas adaptation policy and planning that appreciates the interconnections between the two perspectives would likely reduce vulnerability and contribute to more urban sustainability [23].…”

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What do New Yorkers Think about Impacts and Adaptation to Heat Waves? An Evaluation Tool to Incorporate Perception of Low-Income Groups into Heat Wave Adaptation Scenarios in New York City

Matmir

Reckien

Flacke

2017

IJGI

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Low-income residents are among the most vulnerable groups to climate change in urban areas, particularly regarding heat stress. However, their perceptions about heat and the impacts they face go often undocumented, and are seldom considered in decision-making processes delivering adaptation. This paper presents a robust tool to allow the integration of perception, concerns and impacts of different income groups in urban adaptation planning and governance, using the City of New York as a case study. Employing online interviews-a solid method to reach poorer households-and Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping, we compare impacts and adaptation perception to heat and simulate adaptation scenarios. Results reveal that lower income groups are more concerned about impacts of heat waves than middle-and high-income populations. All income groups see citizens more in charge of adaptation, although more people from the lower income groups regard it necessary to do much more to protect themselves, proportionately more people from the higher income groups think they are doing the right amount. The scenario analysis shows that, compared to investments in the water/electricity and health system, improvements in the transit system would yield the largest decrease in negative impacts during heat, benefitting all income groups jointly.

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Impacts of heat waves and corresponding measures: a review

Cited by 217 publications

References 114 publications

Mortality Associated with High Ambient Temperatures, Heatwaves, and the Urban Heat Island in Athens, Greece

Mortality Associated with High Ambient Temperatures, Heatwaves, and the Urban Heat Island in Athens, Greece

Building resilient and sustainable: a need to decompartementalise the researches

What do New Yorkers Think about Impacts and Adaptation to Heat Waves? An Evaluation Tool to Incorporate Perception of Low-Income Groups into Heat Wave Adaptation Scenarios in New York City

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