The 2022 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: leveraging climate actions for healthy ageing

Cai, Wenjia; Zhang, Chi; Zhang, Shihui; Bai, Yuqi; Callaghan, Max; Chang, Nan; Chen, Bin; Chen, Huiqi; Cheng, Liangliang; Cui, Xueqin; Dai, Hancheng; Danna, Bawuerjiang; Dong, Wenjie; Fan, Weicheng; Fang, Xiaoyi; Gao, Tong; Yang, Geng; Guan, Dabo; Hu, Yixin; Hua, Junyi; Huang, Cunrui; Huang, Hong; Huang, Jianbin; Jiang, Linlang; Jiang, Qiaolei; Jiang, Xiaopeng; Hu, Jin; Kiesewetter, Gregor; Lu, Liang; Lin, Borong; Lin, Hualiang; Liu, Huan; Liu, Qiyong; Liu, Tao; Liu, Xiaobo; Liu, Xinyuan; Liu, Zhao; Li, Zhu; Lou, Shuhan; Lu, Chenxi; Luo, Zhaochu; Wang, Meng; Miao, Hui; Ren, Chao; Romanello, Marina; Schöpp, Wolfgang; Su, Jing; Tang, Xu; Wang, Can; Wang, Qiong; Warnecke, Laura; Wen, Sanmei; Winiwarter, Wilfried; Xie, Yang; Xu, Bing; Yan, Yu; Yao, Fanghong; Yu, Le; Yuan, Jiacan; Zeng, Yiping; Zhang, Jing; Zhang, Lu; Zhang, Rui; Zhang, Shangchen; Zhang, Shaohui; Zhao, Qi; Zheng, Dashan; Zhang, Hao; Zhou, Jingbo; Fung, Margaret Fu-Chun Chan; Luo, Yong; Gong, Peng

doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(22)00224-9

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“…In New York City, Hurricane Sandy, an unprecedented storm of unprecedented magnitude, destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes and caused over $65 billion in economic damage in October 2012. In 2021, precipitation in China's Yangtze River Basin was the highest since 1961, displacing more than 3.8 million people [2]. Korea is also being exposed more frequently to various disasters, especially as rainfall patterns change, making it more challenging to deal with heavy rainfall disasters [3].…”

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Study on the Redevelopment of the Hangang River Waterfront from an Urban Resilience Perspective

Jun,

Song

2023

Sustainability

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Cities worldwide are developing strategies to cope with heat waves, extreme colds, floods, wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts, pandemics, and other disasters caused by climate change. To this end, a resilience theory is being expanded and applied as a methodology to secure social and spatial systems that respond to climate change while providing ecological habitats and spaces for more diverse human activities. This study evaluated resilient redevelopment strategies for the Hangang River in Seoul by drawing on practices grounded in resilience theory. This study analyzed the nine proposals from the Resilience by Design Challenge, which aimed to gather response strategies for climate change in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2017 to identify practical physical design and social system strategies. Each team’s strategy for implementing urban resilience focused on six categories: governance systems, financial planning, public engagement, accessibility, ecology, and diversity. The guidelines to consider during the redevelopment of the Hangang River in Seoul were formulated by applying these criteria to the review of the river. This process has also yielded the following implications and characteristics for resilient design. First, ensuring the resilience of a city necessitates prioritizing the resolution of regional imbalances. Second, the social and ecological resilience of cities is intricately intertwined. Moreover, comprehending the dynamics between the two can guide effective, resilient design. Third, resilient design’s spatial and temporal scales are extensive and varied, highlighting the importance of understanding the relationships among categories and subcategories at different hierarchies. Finally, the value of urban waterfront space, traditionally associated with positive cultural and economic contributions to cities, must be reevaluated more profoundly and meaningfully in light of climate change.

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Study on the Redevelopment of the Hangang River Waterfront from an Urban Resilience Perspective

Jun,

Song

2023

Sustainability

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“…To this end, the Lancet Countdown has established Regional Centres around the world, to generate regionally-led policy-relevant evidence on the local links between health and climate change. The Centres in Asia (Tsinghua University, China), 55 South America (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru), 56 Europe (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain), 57 and Oceania (Macquarie University and the University of Sydney, Australia) 58 have well-established networks of regional researchers producing indicator reports for their respective regions or key countries within them. The growing Small Island Developing States (SIDS) centre (University of the West Indies, Jamaica) will publish their first report in 2024, while efforts are underway to launch develop a new African centre.…”

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The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms

Romanello,

Napoli,

Green

et al. 2023

The Lancet

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“…As it does not refer to actual health costs incurred, statistical life value is inappropriate for assessing the related strain on the health system. Estimating the specific healthcare cost impact of temperature fluctuations will allow health authorities to better understand the economic burden associated with the health of older adults and implement adaptive strategies to address this challenge (Cai et al 2022). However, a limited number of studies have used specific healthcare costs to measure it (Wang et al 2021, Wondmagegn et al 2021.…”

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Health cost impacts of extreme temperature on older adults based on city-level data from 28 provinces in China

Yu,

Liang,

Hou

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Extreme temperature exposure can have a considerable impact on the health of older adults. China, which has entered a deeply aging society, may be obviously threatened by extreme weather. Based on data obtained from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we apply a panel fixed effect model to investigate the impact of extreme temperature on medical costs for older adults. The results reveal a U-shaped relationship between temperature and older adults' medical costs. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that medical costs for older adults in the South and older adults in rural areas are more significantly affected by low temperatures, mainly due to lower per capita heating facilities. Furthermore, the medical costs of older people with lower education levels are also more susceptible to temperature fluctuations. Our simulated prediction indicates that the medical costs of older adults in 2050 will be 2.7 trillion Chinese yuan under the RCP8.5 scenario, but can be reduced by 4.6% and 7.4% following RCP4.5 and RCP2.6 scenarios, respectively. Compared with base period, the medical costs of older adults in western provinces such as Guangxi and Sichuan will more than triple by 2050. Policymakers should prioritize addressing the health needs of these vulnerable groups and less developed regions with less adaptive capacity.

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The 2022 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: leveraging climate actions for healthy ageing

Cited by 51 publications

References 55 publications

Study on the Redevelopment of the Hangang River Waterfront from an Urban Resilience Perspective

Study on the Redevelopment of the Hangang River Waterfront from an Urban Resilience Perspective

The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms

Health cost impacts of extreme temperature on older adults based on city-level data from 28 provinces in China

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