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3 Heat, Public Health, and Susceptible Communities
Pages 12-17

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... George Ban-Weiss (University of Southern California) shared neighborhood-scale measurements of urban heat islands and the cooling benefits associated with cool roofs and other heat mitigation strategies.
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... that combine models and observational data to help inform selection and investment in these strategies to mitigate heat islands in the Los Angeles area. To gather data, Ban-Weiss and his colleagues developed a mobile sensor and drove it on carefully designed routes and installed new weather stations on sites owned by Los Angeles Unified School District.
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... He noted that some low-income urban areas as well as agricultural areas with fairly large numbers of outdoor workers are projected to have significantly large changes. The California Heat Assessment Tool provides projected changes in severity, frequency, and duration at the census tract scale alongside vulnerability indicators to help planners prioritize investments, and the tool is available freely online.3 NANCY SUTLEY, LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)
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... Rhoades said that many of these health impacts will disproportionately impact vulnerable populations including low-income communities, children and older adults, outdoor workers and athletes, and undocumented migrants and people experiencing homelessness, in turn contributing to widening disparities and health inequities in California and the United States broadly. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is coordinating with other local agencies to implement heat island mitigation strategies including cool roofs and pavements as well as green spaces and trees.
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... He asked if there were plans to broaden consideration of the benefits of cool roofs in State legislation. California Energy Commission Chair Robert Weisenmiller described the history of Title 248 building standards and how cool roofs were incorporated, saying that the commission is primarily focused on quantifiable energy savings, although it is in the process of expanding what is included -- for example, including residential solar.
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... 2018. "Investigating Optimal Urban Heat Mitigation Strategies for Vulnerable Populations in a Changing Climate." Externally published contribution to California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment.
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