Heat health risk assessment in Philippine cities using remotely sensed data and social-ecological indicators

More than half of the world’s population currently live in urban areas and are particularly at risk from the combined effects of the urban heat island phenomenon and heat increases due to climate change. Here, by using remotely sensed surface temperature data and social-ecological indicators, focusi...

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Published in:Nature communications 2020-03, Vol.11 (1), p.1581-12, Article 1581
Main Authors: Estoque, Ronald C., Ooba, Makoto, Seposo, Xerxes T., Togawa, Takuya, Hijioka, Yasuaki, Takahashi, Kiyoshi, Nakamura, Shogo
Format: Article
Language:English
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Cities
Climate change
Dry season
Ecological and Environmental Phenomena
Exposure
Geography
Health risk assessment
Health risks
Heat
Hot Temperature
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Indicators
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
multidisciplinary
open climate campaign
Philippines
Remote sensing
Remote Sensing Technology
Risk
Risk Assessment
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Surface temperature
Urban areas
Urban heat islands
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