MI-Environment: Geospatial patterns and inequality of relative heat stress vulnerability in Michigan.

ABSTRACT: Heat stress causes morbidity and mortality and is increasing with climate change. Heat stress can pose particular challenges in northern regions not well adapted to heat. To assist decision makers, we identified the relative vulnerability of census tracts within Michigan to factors that increase exposure to heat stress or reflect susceptibilities in the population based on a California heat vulnerability index. In the MI-Environment assessment, we used a Geographic Information System (GIS) to combine future ensemble climate model projections to create a total of 9 geospatial and demographic variables. As part of a broader planned cumulative environmental exposure assessment, the statewide heat vulnerability index (HVI) maps display the location and relative magnitude of exposure on three m

SUBMITTER: Koman PD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6944282 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature