KLIMPRAX Wiesbaden/Mainz - Urban climate in municipal practice. Guidelines for Adaptation. Sub-project: Human health impacts
Project management: Prof. Dr. Henny Annette Grewe, Prof. Dr. Beate Blättner
Research assistants: Simone Richter, M.Sc. Public Health; Caroline Wöhl, B.Sc. Health Management
Project partners: INFRASTRUCTURE & ENVIRONMENT Professor Böhm und Partner, Head: Dr.-Ing. Sandra Pennekamp. Overall project management: HLNUG/Centre of Expertise Climate Change and Adaptation
Funding: HLNUG/Centre of Expertise Climate Change and Adaptation
Duration: 01.07.2017 - 30.04.2019
With climate change, the number, duration and intensity of summer and hot days will increase. In populated areas, the so-called heat island effect leads to a disproportionate temperature increase in dense urban areas. Hot spells with temperatures above 30°C and tropical nights, i.e. a nightly cooling not below 20°C, increase the probability of heat (co-)caused mortality and morbidity. Against the background of these negative effects of heat events on human well-being and health, urban planning must increasingly address the connections between climate change and the specific effects in built-up areas, because ensuring healthy living and working conditions is an important task of urban planning.
The aim of the project is to develop instructions and recommendations for the processing and evaluation of results from climate analyses and projections for municipalities of different sizes, including the cartographic presentation of results of the processed climate analysis and projection as a basis for planning practice, as well as the determination of sensitivity and affectedness of human health by climate change in cities of different sizes, taking into account further influencing factors (e.g. urban structural, socio-economic, demographic conditions) for the present and future.
Together with the results from the previous modules of the KLIMPRAX project network, the results will be processed in a generally understandable way and summarised in an action guide for municipalities.
Fulda is working on service module 2: The aim here is to prepare the state of knowledge on the sensitivity of city districts or neighbourhoods to the temperature-related consequences of climate change for the area of action of human health in a geoinformation system for the cities of Mainz and Wiesbaden, namely for the present as well as projected into the near (probably 2030) and more distant future (probably 2060) and to derive recommendations for action for other cities of different sizes from this. On the basis of these sensitivity scenarios, in conjunction with the climate analyses, improved bases for consideration decisions, e.g. in urban planning, are to be provided.