Climate change, pollution and health risk: Perspectives of urban resilience and disaster risk management

Abstract

Climate change has increased the frequency, severity, and intensity of extreme weather events. The interaction(s) between extreme weather event(s) and pollution can induce significant impact(s) on human health. In order to minimize various health problems from climate change and pollution, it is important to improve urban resilience over a city. This seminar 1) will overview the potential health impacts from climate change and pollution in a megacity (e.g. Hong Kong, Vancouver), 2) will explore how we can apply geospatial modelling techniques for health risk, estimation, and 3) will discuss how we can improve household, community, infrastructure resilience for climate change mitigation.