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DOAJ_listed: '1'
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OA_type: gold
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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: As the climate warms, increasing heat-related health risks are expected, and
    can be exacerbated by the urban heat island (UHI) effect. UHIs can also offer
    protection against cold weather, but a clear quantification of their impacts on
    human health across diverse cities and seasons is still being explored. Here we
    provide a 500 m resolution assessment of mortality risks associated with UHIs
    for 85 European cities in 2015-2017. Acute impacts are found during heat extremes,
    with a 45% median increase in mortality risk associated with UHI, compared to
    a 7% decrease during cold extremes. However, protracted cold seasons result in
    greater integrated protective effects. On average, UHI-induced heat-/cold-related
    mortality is associated with economic impacts of €192/€ − 314 per adult urban
    inhabitant per year in Europe, comparable to air pollution and transit costs.
    These findings urge strategies aimed at designing healthier cities to consider
    the seasonality of UHI impacts, and to account for social costs, their controlling
    factors, and intra-urban variability.
article_number: '7438'
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Wan Ting Katty
  full_name: Huang, Wan Ting Katty
  last_name: Huang
- first_name: Pierre
  full_name: Masselot, Pierre
  last_name: Masselot
- first_name: Elie
  full_name: Bou-Zeid, Elie
  last_name: Bou-Zeid
- first_name: Simone
  full_name: Fatichi, Simone
  id: cf8e546b-a9b0-11f0-a43b-aa89ed1b56d6
  last_name: Fatichi
- first_name: Athanasios
  full_name: Paschalis, Athanasios
  last_name: Paschalis
- first_name: Ting
  full_name: Sun, Ting
  last_name: Sun
- first_name: Antonio
  full_name: Gasparrini, Antonio
  last_name: Gasparrini
- first_name: Gabriele
  full_name: Manoli, Gabriele
  last_name: Manoli
citation:
  ama: Huang WTK, Masselot P, Bou-Zeid E, et al. Economic valuation of temperature-related
    mortality attributed to urban heat islands in European cities. <i>Nature Communications</i>.
    2023;14(1). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43135-z">10.1038/s41467-023-43135-z</a>
  apa: Huang, W. T. K., Masselot, P., Bou-Zeid, E., Fatichi, S., Paschalis, A., Sun,
    T., … Manoli, G. (2023). Economic valuation of temperature-related mortality attributed
    to urban heat islands in European cities. <i>Nature Communications</i>. Springer
    Nature. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43135-z">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43135-z</a>
  chicago: Huang, Wan Ting Katty, Pierre Masselot, Elie Bou-Zeid, Simone Fatichi,
    Athanasios Paschalis, Ting Sun, Antonio Gasparrini, and Gabriele Manoli. “Economic
    Valuation of Temperature-Related Mortality Attributed to Urban Heat Islands in
    European Cities.” <i>Nature Communications</i>. Springer Nature, 2023. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43135-z">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43135-z</a>.
  ieee: W. T. K. Huang <i>et al.</i>, “Economic valuation of temperature-related mortality
    attributed to urban heat islands in European cities,” <i>Nature Communications</i>,
    vol. 14, no. 1. Springer Nature, 2023.
  ista: Huang WTK, Masselot P, Bou-Zeid E, Fatichi S, Paschalis A, Sun T, Gasparrini
    A, Manoli G. 2023. Economic valuation of temperature-related mortality attributed
    to urban heat islands in European cities. Nature Communications. 14(1), 7438.
  mla: Huang, Wan Ting Katty, et al. “Economic Valuation of Temperature-Related Mortality
    Attributed to Urban Heat Islands in European Cities.” <i>Nature Communications</i>,
    vol. 14, no. 1, 7438, Springer Nature, 2023, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43135-z">10.1038/s41467-023-43135-z</a>.
  short: W.T.K. Huang, P. Masselot, E. Bou-Zeid, S. Fatichi, A. Paschalis, T. Sun,
    A. Gasparrini, G. Manoli, Nature Communications 14 (2023).
das_tickbox: '1'
date_created: 2026-07-27T12:30:24Z
date_published: 2023-11-17T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2026-08-06T11:08:56Z
day: '17'
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43135-z
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  - ' 37978178'
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issue: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
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- open_access: '1'
  url: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43135-z
month: '11'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
pmid: 1
publication: Nature Communications
publication_identifier:
  eissn:
  - 2041-1723
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Nature
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Economic valuation of temperature-related mortality attributed to urban heat
  islands in European cities
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  legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
  name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)
  short: CC BY (4.0)
type: journal_article
user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd
volume: 14
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