Risk screening methods for extreme heat: Implications for equity-oriented adaptation.

ABSTRACT: Morbidity and mortality impacts of extreme heat amplified by climate change will be unequally distributed among communities given pre-existing differences in socioeconomic, health, and environmental conditions. Many governments are interested in adaptation policies that target those especially vulnerable to the risks, but there are important questions about how to effectively identify and support communities most in need of heat adaptations. Here, we use an equity-oriented adaptation program from the state of California as a case study to evaluate the implications of the currently used environmental justice index (CalEnviroScreen 3.0) for the identification of socially vulnerable communities with climate change adaptation needs. As CalEnviroScreen is geared towards air and water pollution,

SUBMITTER: Turek-Hankins LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7641348 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature