Alessa Widmaier (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge) will be presenting her work on “Urban Climate-Health Resilience: An Economic Analysis of Preventative Interventions Across 11,000 Global Cities”.
About this session: Cities are pivotal arenas where climate stressors translate into unequal health risks and system pressures. This research piece develops a place-based model of urban health, combining recent relative-risk functions for heat, air pollution, WASH access, and lifestyle factors with city-level disease profiles and projected environmental stressors for >11,000 cities to 2050. Evidence-based adaptation interventions are evaluated for their effects on health outcomes, healthcare costs, emissions, and equity. Results identify where and when prevention yields the highest returns and outline pathways for coordinated implementation across health systems and municipal leadership.
When: Monday 10th of November
12.30-12.45 Light lunch and networking
12.45-13.45 Talk and Q&A.
Where: CRASSH meeting room (Alison Richards Building) on the Sidgwick site.
Lunch: A light lunch will be provided, but bring along your drink of choice!
Zoom: You can also join us virtually on Zoom.
The weekly climaTRACES workshops, organised by Kamiar Mohaddes and Henning Zschietzschmann, are attended by a diverse group of people from economics, geography, politics, engineering, business, earth sciences, natural sciences, and history, generating interdisciplinary discussion. One person leads the session, on either a paper they have written, a work in progress, or just an idea they have and would like feedback on. This is also an opportunity for people to find our more about the team on what climaTRACES have been up to and what future events and research projects are being developed.