🇬🇧 🌡️ How do #society and #health respond to extreme #heat? Kelley De Polt is investigating precisely that with a new look at natural hazards in Germany. 📊 Her research combines #climate data, media reports, and health records to find out which duration of #heat waves triggers the strongest societal responses. 🌍 The result: natural hazards should not be viewed in isolation. A systemic, #interdisciplinary approach that combines meteorological data with social and health impacts provides a much more realistic picture of the risk. ❓ How do you think science should define extreme weather events in the future? Purely #meteorological or in conjunction with social and health impacts? 🇩🇪 🌡️ Wie reagieren #Gesellschaft und #Gesundheit auf extreme #Hitze? Kelley de Polt untersucht genau das mit einem neuen Blick auf Naturgefahren in Deutschland. 📊 Ihre Forschung verknüpft #Klimadaten, Medienberichte und Gesundheitsaufzeichnungen, um herauszufinden, welche Dauer von #Hitzewelle-n die stärksten gesellschaftlichen Reaktionen auslöst. 🌍 Das Ergebnis: Naturgefahren sollten nicht isoliert betrachtet werden. Ein systemischer, #interdisziplinär-er Ansatz, der meteorologische Daten mit gesellschaftlichen und gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen kombiniert, liefert ein viel realistischeres Bild des Risikos. ❓ Wie sollte deiner Meinung nach die Wissenschaft extreme Wetterereignisse künftig definieren? Rein #meteorologisch oder in Verbindung mit gesellschaftlicher und gesundheitlicher Wirkung?
Doctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry | External PhD Candidate VU Amsterdam | Exploring (multi-)hazard heatwaves and dynamics of risk | MYRIAD-EU Project
💡 I had the opportunity to speak with LATEST THINKING (lt.org) about ongoing work throughout my PhD that incorporates societal and health responses into natural hazard risk assessments. 🎥 The video explores ways of moving further toward a more systemic understanding of natural hazard risk by linking extreme heat events with societal interest and public health impacts. Highlighting a case study analysis in Germany, the research combines climate data, societal attention, and health records to identify the durations of heatwaves associated with the strongest responses. This approach highlights the importance of moving beyond hazard-only definitions and toward a more interdisciplinary perspective. 📄 Related manuscripts: Quantifying impact-relevant heatwave durations: https://lnkd.in/eBvz_mt7 Official heat warnings miss situations with a detectable societal heat response in European countries: https://lnkd.in/eCfzenzu Many thanks also to supervisors, collaborators, and colleagues who supported and contributed to this work: René Orth, Philip Ward 🟥, Marleen de Ruiter 🟥, Markus Reichstein, Dorothea Frank, Ekaterina Bogdanovich Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) | IMPRS for Global Biogeochemical Cycles | MYRIAD-EU 👉 Full interview available here: https://lnkd.in/ecQQ7e-h