Climate change impacts increase economic inequality: evidence from a systematic literature review

A Méjean, P Collins-Sowah, C Guivarch… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
While it is widely assumed that poor countries will suffer more from climate change, and that
climate change will exacerbate inequalities within countries, systematic and large-scale …

Regimes of Soil Moisture–Wet-Bulb Temperature Coupling with Relevance to Moist Heat Stress

Q Kong, M Huber - Journal of Climate, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Human heat stress depends jointly on atmospheric temperature and humidity. Wetter soils
reduce temperature but also raise humidity, making the collective impact on heat stress …

Impacts of warming on outdoor worker well-being in the tropics and adaptation options

YJ Masuda, LA Parsons, JT Spector, DS Battisti… - One Earth, 2024 - cell.com
Over a billion outdoor workers live in the tropics, where nearly a fifth of all hours in the year
are hot and humid enough to exceed recommended safety thresholds for workers …

The uneven impacts of climate change on China's labor productivity and economy

M Zhao, M Zhu, Y Chen, C Zhang, W Cai - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change is considered to increase economic costs by worsening heat-related labor
productivity loss. While extensive global and national research has been conducted on this …

Implementation and evaluation of wet bulb globe temperature within non‐urban environments in the community land model version 5

JR Buzan - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Global heat stress is a phenomenon that impacts the livelihood of humans worldwide. Due
to climate change, heatwaves are already increasing negatively impact outdoor laborers …

Changes in land cover and management affect heat stress and labor capacity

A Orlov, S De Hertog, F Havermann, S Guo… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming is expected to exacerbate heat stress. Additionally, biogeophysical effects of
land cover and land management changes (LCLMC) could substantially alter temperature …

Global warming amplifies outdoor extreme moist heat during the Indian summer monsoon

AK Ambika, A Rajeev, M Huber - Earth's Future, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Because of the climatological prevalence of hot, humid conditions, moist heat extremes are
a significant challenge to the health and wellbeing of the people in India. While research has …

[HTML][HTML] Prefecture-level health risk assessment for hot extremes in China

J Huang, S Shen, C Cheng, C Song - International Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2024 - Elsevier
Evaluating prefecture-level health risks for hot extremes is the core of localized adaptation
measures to mitigate negative heat-related impacts. Here, by applying the heat hazard …

[HTML][HTML] Global Climate

RJH Dunn, J Blannin, N Gobron… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Global Climate in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 105 Issue 8 (2024)
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How do social and biological factors make people in urban areas vulnerable to heat-related Human Rights violations?

A Badke, L Eieland, A Håseth Julsrud… - 2023 - nmbu.brage.unit.no
Heatwaves increase with global warming, and pose a threat to people's health, livelihoods,
wellbeing and labor productivity. Higher temperatures puts pressure on urban infrastructures …