Health impacts of climate resilient city development: Evidence from China

IF 10.5 1区工程技术 Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Sustainable Cities and Society Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI:10.1016/j.scs.2024.105914

Kai-yang Fu , Yu-zhe Liu , Xin-yu Lu , Bin Chen , You-hua Chen

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Abstract

This study examines the health impacts of Climate Resilient City (CRC) policies using a difference-in-differences methodology. Our findings demonstrate that CRC policies significantly improve public health, particularly benefiting vulnerable populations and residents in regions with extreme temperatures. Mechanism analysis reveals that these policies enhance urban climate resilience through improved water management, air pollution reduction, energy conservation, and strengthened social capital. Moreover, our results show that CRC policies help reduce health disparities linked to differences in medical resources and climate conditions. This study provides crucial insights for policymakers in designing effective climate and public health strategies, emphasizing the importance of climate-resilient urban development.

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气候适应性城市发展对健康的影响：来自中国的证据

本研究采用差分法研究了气候适应性城市（CRC）政策对健康的影响。我们的研究结果表明，气候适应性城市（CRC）政策显著改善了公众健康，特别是使极端气温地区的弱势群体和居民受益。机制分析表明，这些政策通过改善水资源管理、减少空气污染、节约能源和加强社会资本，提高了城市的气候适应能力。此外，我们的研究结果表明，CRC 政策有助于减少与医疗资源和气候条件差异相关的健康差异。这项研究为政策制定者设计有效的气候和公共卫生战略提供了重要启示，强调了具有气候适应能力的城市发展的重要性。

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来源期刊

Sustainable Cities and Society Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

CiteScore

22.00

自引率

13.70%

发文量

810

审稿时长

27 days

期刊介绍： Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including: 1. Smart cities and resilient environments; 2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management; 3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management); 4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities; 5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments; 6. Green infrastructure and BMPs; 7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management; 8. Urban agriculture and forestry; 9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure; 10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy; 11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities; 12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities; 13. Health monitoring and improvement; 14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies; 15. Smart city governance; 16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society; 17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies; 18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems. 19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management; 20. Waste reduction and recycling; 21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling; 22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;