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SUBMITTER: Estoque RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7101384 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Estoque Ronald C RC Ooba Makoto M Seposo Xerxes T XT Togawa Takuya T Hijioka Yasuaki Y Takahashi Kiyoshi K Nakamura Shogo S
Nature communications 20200327 1
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, focusing on the hot dry season, and applying the risk framework of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we assessed the current heat health risk in 139 Philippine cities, which account for about 4 ...[more]