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Aliso Park in Los Angeles, California.

PHOTO BY ANNIE BANG. PROVIDED COURTESY
OF THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND

H E A LT H & W E L L N E S S

Parks as a Solution to Climate Change
Creating healthy, prepared communities with climate-smart parks
By Taj Schottland

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limate change has emerged as the world's most critical environmental issue, as well as one of the most pressing social, economic and health challenges of our time. While it is a global issue,
its impacts are felt most acutely at the local level. From families
that are displaced by flooding to elderly grandparents who are hospitalized
because of health complications from extreme heat, the impacts of climate
change are very real and very personal.
The statistics prove it. For example, heat waves in the United States
have almost tripled compared to
the long-term average, and now kill
more people in cities than all other
weather-related events combined.
Extreme heat is a public health
hazard that's driven by climate
change, but it's not the only health
hazard. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention have identified eight ways climate change is
impacting human health, resulting

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in increased respiratory illnesses,
mental health impacts, cardiovascular failure and more.

How Can Parks Be
a Climate Solution?
While the impacts of climate
change are daunting, there is growing recognition that parks can be
part of the climate solution. Parks
reduce harmful carbon pollution
that is driving climate change; they
protect people and infrastructure

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from increasingly severe storms,
sea-level rise, heat waves and
droughts; and they also directly
reduce some of the primary public
health challenges that are exacerbated by climate change. Below are
a few examples of how parks can
be a climate solution.

Cooling Urban Heat Islands
Parks and trees are one of the most
effective ways to combat extreme
heat. A recent study in Baltimore,
Maryland, and Washington, D.C.,
showed that on one of the hottest days last summer, parks were
a cooling oasis - as much as 17
degrees cooler than parts of the
city lacking trees and green space.
In addition, the cooling benefit of
parks can extend as far as a half-



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