TY - CHAP
T1 - Human health
AU - Brown, Heidi E
AU - Comrie, Andrew
AU - Drechsler, Deborah M.
AU - Barker, Christopher M.
AU - Basu, Rupa
AU - Brown, Timothy
AU - Gershunov, Alexander
AU - Marm Kilpatrick, A.
AU - Reisen, William K.
AU - Ruddell, Darren M.
AU - English, Paul B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by NASA under DPR NNG04ED181 and NAS 5-98033, and by ONR. We thank Jeff Skibo for use of his annihilation radiation code; Uri Feldman, Benz Kozlov-sky, Tom Metcalf, Valentina Zharkova, and Harry Warren for discussions; and Irina Myagkova and Juergen Kiener for providing the CORONAS-F and INTEGRAL data, respectively.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 Institute of the Environment. All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - Global climate models project changes in precipitation patterns, drought, flooding, and sea-level rise, and an increase in the frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme heat events throughout the Southwest. The challenge for the protection of public health is to characterize how these climate events may influence health and to establish plans for mitigating and responding to the health impacts. However, the effects of climate change on health vary across the region, by population, and by disease system, making it difficult to establish broad yet concise health promotion messages that are useful for developing adaptation and mitigation plans. Techniques are increasingly available to quantify the health effects resulting from climate change and to move forward into predictions that are of sufficient resolution to establish policy guidelines. Strides are being made in assigning cost to both the positive and negative effects on health of proposed climate-mitigation strategies or the lack thereof. As a result, more tools are available for cities and states to develop mitigation and adaptation plans that are specifically tailored to their populations.
AB - Global climate models project changes in precipitation patterns, drought, flooding, and sea-level rise, and an increase in the frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme heat events throughout the Southwest. The challenge for the protection of public health is to characterize how these climate events may influence health and to establish plans for mitigating and responding to the health impacts. However, the effects of climate change on health vary across the region, by population, and by disease system, making it difficult to establish broad yet concise health promotion messages that are useful for developing adaptation and mitigation plans. Techniques are increasingly available to quantify the health effects resulting from climate change and to move forward into predictions that are of sufficient resolution to establish policy guidelines. Strides are being made in assigning cost to both the positive and negative effects on health of proposed climate-mitigation strategies or the lack thereof. As a result, more tools are available for cities and states to develop mitigation and adaptation plans that are specifically tailored to their populations.
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U2 - 10.5822/978-1-61091-484-0_15
DO - 10.5822/978-1-61091-484-0_15
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84992454345
SN - 9781597264204
SP - 312
EP - 339
BT - Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States
PB - Island Press-Center for Resource Economics
ER -