{"id":5251,"date":"2020-03-23T11:10:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.famelab.gr\/?p=5251"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:02:17","slug":"escalating-environmental-summer-heat-exposure-a-future-threat-for-the-european-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/escalating-environmental-summer-heat-exposure-a-future-threat-for-the-european-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Escalating environmental summer heat exposure \u2014 a future threat for the European workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/escalating-environmental-summer-heat-exposure-a-future-threat-for-the-european-workforce\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2839 size-medium\" title=\"FAME Lab - Escalating environmental summer heat exposure \u2014 a future threat for the European workforce\" src=\"https:\/\/www.famelab.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_1-300x236.png\" alt=\"FAME Lab - Escalating environmental summer heat exposure \u2014 a future threat for the European workforce\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>Casanueva A, Kotlarski S, Fischer AM, <a href=\"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flouris AD<\/a>, Kjellstrom T, Lemke B, Nybo L, Schwierz C, &amp; Liniger MA. Escalating environmental summer heat exposure\u2014a future threat for the European workforce.\u00a0<i>Reg Environ Change<\/i>\u00a020<b>,\u00a0<\/b>40 (2020). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10113-020-01625-6<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Abstract: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Heat exposure constitutes a major threat for European workers, with significant impacts on the workers\u2019 health and productivity. Climate projections over the next decades show a continuous and accelerated warming over Europe together with longer, more intense and more frequent heatwaves on regional and local scales. In this work, we assess the increased risk in future occupational heat stress levels using the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), an index adopted by the International Standards Organization as regulatory index to measure the heat exposure of working people.<\/p>\n<p>Our results show that, in large parts of Europe, future heat exposure will indeed exceed critical levels for physically active humans far more often than in today\u2019s climate, and labour productivity might be largely reduced in southern Europe. European industries should adapt to the projected changes to prevent major consequences for the workers\u2019 health and to preserve economic productivity.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Full Text Link:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10113-020-01625-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10113-020-01625-6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Download PDF:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.famelab.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Escalating-environmental-summer-heat-exposure-\u2014-a-future-threat-for-the-European-workforce_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.famelab.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Escalating-environmental-summer-heat-exposure-\u2014-a-future-threat-for-the-European-workforce_2020.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8302 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.famelab.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Line.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1316\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casanueva A, Kotlarski S, Fischer AM, Flouris AD, Kjellstrom T, Lemke B, Nybo L, Schwierz C, &amp; Liniger MA. Escalating environmental summer heat exposure\u2014a future threat for the European workforce.\u00a0Reg Environ Change\u00a020,\u00a040 (2020). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10113-020-01625-6 Abstract: Heat exposure constitutes a major threat for European workers, with significant impacts on the workers\u2019 health and productivity. Climate projections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fame-lab-publications-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16560,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions\/16560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}