Urban Outdoor Heat Exposure

Urban Heat and Transportation: Human Exposure and Infrastructure

Environmental heat is a growing concern in cities as a consequence of rapid urbanization and climate change, threatening human health and urban vitality.

Dangerous heat exposure has tripled since the 1980s in cities

Extreme urban heat exposure has dramatically increased since the early 1980s, with the total exposure tripling over the past 35 years.

Retrofitting to reduce health effects of heat for urban poor - MIT Solve

Association of heat stress with several diseases across age groups and adverse pregnancy outcomes have been reported (5)(6). The poor and marginalized ...

Extreme Heat and Health: Implications of Climate Change: ERIT

Heat cramps and exhaustion are also health impacts of extreme heat exposure. Small children, the elderly and certain other groups including people with chronic ...

How Does Heat Exposure Affect the Body and Mind? | The Brink

Very hot days put everyone at risk, but there is no question that some groups and some communities are at greater risk than others. Outdoor ...

How to cool down cities and eliminate urban heat islands

Urban areas are experiencing record-breaking heatwaves as a result of climate change. · During periods of extreme heat, urban heat islands often ...

Heat Exposure and Coping Strategies for Food Delivery Riders ...

... heat exposure risks for outdoor workers. The ... Heat Exposure and Coping Strategies for Food Delivery Riders Under Urban Heat Extremes.

Using a blue landscape to mitigate heat stress during a heatwave ...

This has resulted in increased intensity of heat stress and worsened outdoor thermal environmental conditions in urban microclimates. Water ...

Combined effects of air pollution and heat exposure in Europe

Due to factors such as the urban heat island effect, cities can be significantly warmer than the surrounding areas. Extreme heat events in ...

Thermal stress and comfort assessment in urban areas using ...

As cities continue to grow, it is predicted that the Urban Heat Island (UHI) will intensify, thereby jeopardizing human thermal comfort ( ...

An experimental investigation of the thermal usability of outdoor ...

When faced with urban heat stress, the main measures are moving to indoors, buildings or trees shade, spraying for cooling, etc. People can ...

Everything you need to know about the urban heat island effect

The relentlessness of heat islands from day to night can be dangerous. Even after sunset, the heat can cause dehydration and heat exhaustion.

FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Mobilizes to Protect Workers ...

Millions of U.S. workers are exposed to heat in their workplaces, and essential jobs with high exposure levels are disproportionately held by ...

Urban Heat Stress and Mitigation Solutions: An Engineering ...

The book covers the latest approaches to energy and outdoor comfort measurement and modelling on an urban scale, and describes possible measures and strategies ...

Urban heat islands and a climate of inequities

UHI can affect human health in a myriad of ways, including exhaustion, dehydration, circulatory disorders, and even death. Vulnerability to ...

Factors of subjective heat stress of urban citizens in contexts of ...

Urban citizens experience heat at home, or at work outdoors, or in buildings surrounded by urban struc- tures with small-scale variability of temperatures. Our ...

Residential segregation and outdoor urban moist heat stress ...

Ninety-four percent of the US urban population (228 million) live in cities where heat stress burdens the poor, with heat stress inequities ...

Hot Topics in Urban Policy and Health: Protecting Outdoor Workers ...

Extreme heat puts workers at risk of heat exhaustion, injury, illness, stroke and even death. This includes outdoor workers, such as those in construction, ...

Urban Heat Island Effect Solutions and Funding

Concentrated urban heat islands in cities can increase energy costs, air pollution levels, heat-related illness and even resident mortality.

A New Method to Assess Fine-Scale Outdoor Thermal Comfort for ...

In urban areas, high air temperatures and heat stress levels greatly affect human thermal comfort and public health, with climate change further increasing ...