Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing Climate Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief (2017) / Chapter Skim
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Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing Climate: Proceedings of a Workshop--in Brief
Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing Climate: Proceedings of a Workshop--in Brief
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Patz then discussed several key challenges posed by the changing climate, including hydrologic extremes (droughts, floods, and sea level rise) , threats to food and water supplies, mental health effects, and environmental refugees due to forced population movement (e.g., retreat from coastal settlements)
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Maria Koetter, director of the Louisville Metro Office of Sustainability, described the areas of focus in the city's comprehensive sustainability plan, the interconnected issues of energy efficiency, tree canopy and reforestation, green infrastructure, and urban heat management. In 2012, Brian Stone of the Georgia Institute of Technology released a study that "showed that Louisville had the most rapidly warming heat island in the country." The city applied and received a grant from Partners for Places to hire Stone to do an in-depth analysis of Louisville's urban heat island issues and help the city model strategies and scenarios to help manage the heat, including assessing population vulnerability and heat mortality data (Urban Climate Lab, 2016)
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Biedrzycki concluded with the suggestion that making the economic argument can be compelling and convincing to policy makers and so can clearly delineating the nexus between climate change and items that top the priority list for most mayors, county executives, or other local leaders, such as job creation, early education, and public safety. He added that it is crucial to leverage existing community networks and resources -- in some cases, the climate change planning work may take place within economic sustainability or emergency preparedness programs, in addition to environmental health or communicable disease units.
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look like from a climate healthy business NOTES: The 2016 CO2 value is the net sum after adjusting the facility utility economy, and how does that intersect with energy consumption with the clean energy produced by Gundersen Health national security and global economic goals System renewable energy projects.
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Quinn referenced the availability of useful resources including the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Center for Health Security community checklist for health sector resilience in natural disaster. Quinn briefly outlined NYC's health system vulnerability to rising water in flood zones, including a total of 67 facilities (11 of them hospitals)
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Kathy Gerwig, vice president for employee safety, health, and wellness and environmental stewardship officer at Kaiser Permanente, situated the health system's climate action in its environmental stewardship work, which is a part of its community benefit efforts (the complete list of Kaiser Permanente environmental stewardship goals shared by Gerwig5 includes climate action, sustainable food, and waste reduction)
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sking your health care partners to publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions, to require LEED6 certification and to ask suppliers to use local employees" in order to achieve climate co-benefits. Renata Brillinger with the California Climate & Agriculture Network began by noting that 7 percent of the state's greenhouse gas emissions occur in the form of on-farm emissions.
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U.S. air quality and health benefits from avoided climate change under greenhouse gas mitigation.
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