Urban and rural mortality rates during heat waves in Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany |
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| Authors: | Gabriel Katharina M A Endlicher Wilfried R |
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| Affiliation: | 1. National School of Public Health, Carlos III Institute of Health, Avda. Monforte de Lemos, 5, 28029 Madrid, Spain;2. Torrijos Public Health District, Castile-La Mancha Regional Health Authority (Consejería de Sanidad), Torrijos, Toledo, Spain;3. State Meteorological Agency (Agencia Estatal de Meteorología/AEMET), Madrid, Spain;1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic;2. Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic;3. Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic;4. Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic;5. Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Regional Office Brno, Brno, Czech Republic |
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| Abstract: | In large cities such as Berlin, human mortality rates increase during intense heat waves. Analysis of relevant data from north-eastern Germany revealed that, during the heat waves that occurred between 1990 and 2006, health risks were higher for older people in both rural and urban areas, but that, during the two main heat waves within that 17-year period of time, the highest mortality rates were from the city of Berlin, and in particular from its most densely built-up districts. Adaptation measures will need to be developed, particularly within urban areas, in order to cope with the expected future intensification of heat waves due to global climate change. |
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