add initial draft for heatwave resilience proposal - #101
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lgtm! Lots of information and ideas. These proposals should trigger good discussions and can be refined into one or more concrete project each.
| - Adjust outdoor activities, travel and work to avoid the hottest periods | ||
| - Cool their home, hydrate and choose an appropriate nearby cool place | ||
| - Check on relatives, neighbors or other people who may need assistance | ||
| - Subscribe to official updates and follow locally approved health guidance |
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Recommendation would be to do all of the above, right? Maybe we can make more personalized recommendations, based on each individual's situation.
- move your morning run to 6am instead of 7am
- check on you grandma at ~8am, 12pm, 6pm etc.
Not sure if there's any trade offs in the choices individuals have to make.
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Ideally the recommender system would give suggestions depending on the person personal situation, health, time of day, position etc.
I suppose if you give the person all of the indications at once, they would just dismiss it, or do just a couple. Instead receiving notifications depending on the situation might be more useful (it also depends if the person is not annoyed by notifications).
| - Check on relatives, neighbors or other people who may need assistance | ||
| - Subscribe to official updates and follow locally approved health guidance | ||
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I wonder if we should split into 2 projects: one for individuals, one for administrators. They share some context but have different objectives.
For administrators, there's a clear trade-off between cost of interventions / number of people that are rushed to the hospital. A model could help administrators choose the best actions given their budget and their context.
| - Health impact: changes in heat-related ambulance calls, emergency visits or hospitalizations over longer evaluation periods. | ||
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| The target metrics could be: | ||
| - Longer-term change in aggregated heat-related illness and emergency-service demand |
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Even in the short term the quality of the decisions is probably reflected directly in the number of people that reach out to emergency services within the next 24/48h, maybe up to a week.
| - Allocate staff, drinking water, transport and mobile outreach | ||
| - Prioritize neighborhoods with high exposure and low access to cooling resources | ||
| - Send approved messages through municipal notification channels | ||
| - Plan longer-term measures such as shade, trees, cool roofs and cooling infrastructure |
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Longer-term measures could be a project on their own.
| - Global Human Settlement Layer data can support initial exposure estimates but should be validated against local census data. | ||
| - OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright | ||
| - Can help seed maps of public facilities, parks, drinking-water points and transit, but municipal verification is essential. | ||
| - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/ |
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Looking at the actions in particular, some resources show what works for some cities. The goal of a project could be to apply what works for a city to other cities with similar context. And what should they prioritize.
https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/addressing-extreme-heat-your-cities
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/05/cities-heatwaves-climate-solutions/
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