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Cooling the City? A Scientometric Study on Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure and Climate Change-Induced Public Health Effects

doi: 10.3390/su14094929
handle: 11353/10.1661599
Climate change causes global effects on multiple levels. The anthropogenic input of greenhouse gases increases the atmospheric mean temperature. It furthermore leads to a higher probability of extreme weather events (e.g., heat waves, floods) and thus strongly impacts the habitats of humans, animals, and plants. Against this background, research and innovation activities are increasingly focusing on potential health-related aspects and feasible adaptation and mitigation strategies. Progressing urbanization and demographic change paired with the climate change-induced heat island effect exposes humans living in urban habitats to increasing health risks. By employing scientometric methods, this scoping study provides a systematic bird’s eye view on the epistemic landscapes of climate change, its health-related effects, and possible technological and nature-based interventions and strategies in order to make urban areas climate proof. Based on a literature corpus consisting of 2614 research articles collected in SCOPUS, we applied network-based analysis and visualization techniques to map the different scientific communities, discourses and their interrelations. From a public health perspective, the results demonstrate the range of either direct or indirect health effects of climate change. Furthermore, the results indicate that a public health-related scientific discourse is converging with an urban planning and building science driven discourse oriented towards urban blue and green infrastructure. We conclude that this development might mirror the socio-political demand to tackle emerging climate change-induced challenges by transgressing disciplinary boundaries.
- University of Graz Austria
- Austrian Academy of Sciences Austria
- University of Vienna u:cris Austria
- University of Vienna Austria
- Universität Wien Austria
HEAT WAVES, 105904 Environmental research, TJ807-830, TD194-195, climate change; urban heat island; health effects; urban blue green infrastructure; scientometric analysis, Renewable energy sources, scientometric analysis, EMERGING TRENDS, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, health effects, 107004 Humanökologie, SDG 13 - Climate Action, GE1-350, urban blue green infrastructure, Environmental effects of industries and plants, 107004 Human ecology, climate change; urban heat island; health effects; urban blue green infrastructure; sciento- metric analysis, DISEASE RISK, AIR-POLLUTION, SCIENCE, urban heat island, Environmental sciences, REDUCTION, climate change, SDG 13 – Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz, SDG 3 – Gesundheit und Wohlergehen, VEGETATION, 105904 Umweltforschung, sciento-metric analysis
HEAT WAVES, 105904 Environmental research, TJ807-830, TD194-195, climate change; urban heat island; health effects; urban blue green infrastructure; scientometric analysis, Renewable energy sources, scientometric analysis, EMERGING TRENDS, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, health effects, 107004 Humanökologie, SDG 13 - Climate Action, GE1-350, urban blue green infrastructure, Environmental effects of industries and plants, 107004 Human ecology, climate change; urban heat island; health effects; urban blue green infrastructure; sciento- metric analysis, DISEASE RISK, AIR-POLLUTION, SCIENCE, urban heat island, Environmental sciences, REDUCTION, climate change, SDG 13 – Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz, SDG 3 – Gesundheit und Wohlergehen, VEGETATION, 105904 Umweltforschung, sciento-metric analysis
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