Adapting to Changing Labor Productivity as a Result of Intensified Heat Stress in a Changing Climate.

ABSTRACT: The intensification of heat stress reduces the labor capacity and hence poses a threat to socio-economic development. The reliable projection of the changing climate and the development of sound adaptation strategies are thus desired for adapting to the decreasing labor productivity under climate change. In this study, an optimization modeling approach coupled with dynamical downscaling is proposed to design the optimal adaptation strategies for improving labor productivity under heat stress in China. The future changes in heat stress represented by the wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) are projected with a spatial resolution of 25 × 25 km by a regional climate model (RCM) through the dynamical downscaling of its driving global climate model (GCM). Uncertain information such as system cost

SUBMITTER: Zhu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8011619 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature