TY - JOUR
T1 - Health co-benefits of green building design strategies and community resilience to urban flooding
T2 - A systematic review of the evidence
AU - Houghton, Adele
AU - Castillo-Salgado, Carlos
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Office of Public Health Practice and Training (Lipitz Public Health Policy grant). The study would not have been possible without the following individuals: Brian Schwartz, Alyssa Frazee, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Marie O’Neill, Larissa Larsen, Carina Gronlund, Nicholas Rajkovich, University of Michigan; Colleen Reid, University of California at Berkeley; George Luber and Natasha Prudent, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Christopher Pyke and Sean McMahon, U.S. Green Building Council; and Shannon Jones, III, Austin/Travis County Department of Health and Human Services.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/12/6
Y1 - 2017/12/6
N2 - Climate change is increasingly exacerbating existing population health hazards, as well as resulting in new negative health effects. Flooding is one particularly deadly example of its amplifying and expanding effect on public health. This systematic review considered evidence linking green building strategies in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design® (LEED) Rating System with the potential to reduce negative health outcomes following exposure to urban flooding events. Queries evaluated links between LEED credit requirements and risk of exposure to urban flooding, environmental determinants of health, co-benefits to public health outcomes, and co-benefits to built environment outcomes. Public health co-benefits to leveraging green building design to enhance flooding resilience included: improving the interface between humans and wildlife and reducing the risk of waterborne disease, flood-related morbidity and mortality, and psychological harm. We conclude that collaborations among the public health, climate change, civil society, and green building sectors to enhance community resilience to urban flooding could benefit population health.
AB - Climate change is increasingly exacerbating existing population health hazards, as well as resulting in new negative health effects. Flooding is one particularly deadly example of its amplifying and expanding effect on public health. This systematic review considered evidence linking green building strategies in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design® (LEED) Rating System with the potential to reduce negative health outcomes following exposure to urban flooding events. Queries evaluated links between LEED credit requirements and risk of exposure to urban flooding, environmental determinants of health, co-benefits to public health outcomes, and co-benefits to built environment outcomes. Public health co-benefits to leveraging green building design to enhance flooding resilience included: improving the interface between humans and wildlife and reducing the risk of waterborne disease, flood-related morbidity and mortality, and psychological harm. We conclude that collaborations among the public health, climate change, civil society, and green building sectors to enhance community resilience to urban flooding could benefit population health.
KW - Climate change adaptation
KW - Climate change mitigation
KW - Sustainable communities
KW - Sustainable design
KW - Urban flood-related hazards
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph14121519
DO - 10.3390/ijerph14121519
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29210981
AN - SCOPUS:85037631855
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 14
JO - International journal of environmental research and public health
JF - International journal of environmental research and public health
IS - 12
M1 - 1519
ER -