Background Redlining was a racialized zoning practice in the US that blocked fair access to
home loans during the 1930s, and recent research is illuminating health problems in the …

In recent decades, rising trend in the number of heat waves (HWs) has exacerbated the risk
of heat-related mortality and morbidity. The frequent deadly HWs precipitated a multitude of …

Global climate change presents considerable heating risks to cities, necessitating the
assessment of heat vulnerability characteristics in urban areas for the advancement of …

Climate change has led to a dramatic increase in extreme events worldwide. Predictions for
a+ 1.5° C world indicate that 13.8% of the global population will be exposed to heat waves …

Place-based structural inequalities can have critical implications for the health of vulnerable
populations. Historical urban policies, such as redlining, have contributed to current …

This chapter of the New York City Panel on Climate Change 4 (NPCC4) report considers
climate health risks, vulnerabilities, and resilience strategies in New York City's unique …

A growing literature documents the effects of heat stress on premature mortality and other
adverse health outcomes. Urban heat islands (UHI) can exacerbate these adverse impacts …

Background: Extreme heat poses current and future risks to human health. Heat vulnerability
indices (HVIs), commonly developed using principal components analysis (PCA), are …

Of all-natural disasters, extreme high temperatures events are the main cause of weather-
related mortality. The compact urban settings of cities, the dependency on infrastructural …

High-density cities are faced with growing extreme hot weather driven by climate change
and local urbanization, but localized heat risk detection is still at an early stage for most …