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Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award. Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers. This highly practical handbook will help make that process more efficient and effective. It begins with a guide to how the human body and senses react to different indoor environmental conditions, together with basic information on the parameters of the indoor environment and problems that can...

The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans. These crops comprise two of the four largest sources of caloric energy produced and are thus critical for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level yields for these two crops, plus cotton (a warmer-weather crop), with a new fine-scale weather dataset that incorporates the whole distribution of temperatures within each day and across all days in the growing season. We find that yields increase with...

Climate change is now recognised as a global public health problem and the future medical workforce will be working during a period when the health impacts of climate change are likely to be significant.This article discusses the ongoing training on the health impacts of climate change for the current and future medical workforce.The role of medical practitioners in the coming decades will need to include assisting communities to adapt to changing climatic conditions, managing climate...

As we enter the compliance years of the Kyoto Protocol, the world waits to see whether the first global effort at combating climate change will be deemed a success or failure. While there may be no clear answer to that question, an analysis of various nations’ efforts at compliance reveals a wide spectrum of approaches and obstacles to tackling this enormous challenge. This Article explores the varying successes and failures of three signatories - the European Union, Japan, and Canada - in...

As we enter the compliance years of the Kyoto Protocol, the world waits to see whether the first global effort at combating climate change will be deemed a success or failure. While there may be no clear answer to that question, an analysis of various nations’ efforts at compliance reveals a wide spectrum of approaches and obstacles to tackling this enormous challenge. This Article explores the varying successes and failures of three signatories - the European Union, Japan, and Canada - in...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive list of student‐led, campus‐based climate change initiatives, and offers details on many specific cases. The paper also documents the roles students have played and considers the larger youth engagement implications. Many of these initiatives can be replicated elsewhere, thereby providing a starting point for students wanting to begin an initiative or providing ideas for other campus stakeholders wanting to engage students in...

Vol. 117, No. 7 AnnouncementsOpen AccessResilient, Green… and Healthy Howard Frumkin Howard Frumkin Search for more papers by this author Published:1 July 2009https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.117-a318AboutSectionsPDF ToolsDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InReddit The environmental health field has been swept by major changes in recent years. One was the rediscovery of the “built environment” as a key determinant of human health. Community design—including land...

Vol. 117, No. 7 AnnouncementsOpen AccessResilient, Green… and Healthy Howard Frumkin Howard Frumkin Search for more papers by this author Published:1 July 2009https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.117-a318AboutSectionsPDF ToolsDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InReddit The environmental health field has been swept by major changes in recent years. One was the rediscovery of the “built environment” as a key determinant of human health. Community design—including land...

Simple modifications of typical rural house design can be an effective and relatively inexpensive method of reducing indoor mosquito vector densities and consequently decreasing malaria transmission. Public health scientists have shown the potential for house design to protect people against malaria, yet this type of intervention remains virtually ignored. A randomized-controlled study was, therefore, undertaken to determine the effects of this method of vector control on the density of...

Numerous studies are in progress to support adaptive models in indoor thermal comfort evaluation and to establish quantitative indexes to allow the subject to optimize his/her comfort conditions. A wide experimental campaign was carried out in moderate environments, such as university classrooms, and a multiple choice questionnaire was elaborated, comprehensive of information for the static and adaptive model proposed by UNI EN ISO 10551, in order to find a correlation between experimental...

Numerous studies are in progress to support adaptive models in indoor thermal comfort evaluation and to establish quantitative indexes to allow the subject to optimize his/her comfort conditions. A wide experimental campaign was carried out in moderate environments, such as university classrooms, and a multiple choice questionnaire was elaborated, comprehensive of information for the static and adaptive model proposed by UNI EN ISO 10551, in order to find a correlation between experimental...

Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates by Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken. Published in volume 99, issue 2, pages 198-204 of American Economic Review, May 2009

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) and its extensions such as Nonnegative Tensor Factorization (NTF) have become prominent techniques for blind sources separation (BSS), analysis of image databases, data mining and other information retrieval and clustering applications. In this paper we propose a family of efficient algorithms for NMF/NTF, as well as sparse nonnegative coding and representation, that has many potential applications in computational neuroscience, multi-sensory...

This paper shows the extent to which people in Funafuti – the main island of Tuvalu – are intending to migrate in response to climate change. It presents evidence collected from Funafuti to challenge the widely held assumption that climate change is, will, or should result in large-scale migration from Tuvalu. It shows that for most people climate change is not a reason for concern, let alone a reason to migrate, and that would-be migrants do not cite climate change as a reason to leave....

Aims On the threshold of a new era of consequences, it seems the evidence of climate change is not speaking to medical education and training, and vice versa. What competencies will Australia’s rural and remote general practitioners need in a climate-changing world? How should Australian rural and remote medical education and training adapt to meet the challenges of climate change? How is Australia placed relative to the world in meeting such challenges and what does this suggest about our...

Aims On the threshold of a new era of consequences, it seems the evidence of climate change is not speaking to medical education and training, and vice versa. What competencies will Australia’s rural and remote general practitioners need in a climate-changing world? How should Australian rural and remote medical education and training adapt to meet the challenges of climate change? How is Australia placed relative to the world in meeting such challenges and what does this suggest about our...