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Judy Robinson, Sustainability Manager

916.874.4551 Robinsonju@saccounty.net

RESOURCES FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCY

River Friendly Landscape Guidelines: http://www.msa.saccounty.net/sactostormwater/RFL/Documents/RiverFriendly_

Guidelines.pdf

River Friendly Landscape Calculator: http://www.ecolandscape.org/riverfriendly/

“Urban River Parkways: An Essential Tool for Public Health” Dr. Richard Jackson http://ehs.ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/Urban%20River%20Parkway s%20Full%20Report_1.pdf

Draft Sacramento County Zoning/Development

Code and Design Guidelines: http://www.per.saccounty.net/PlansandProjectsIn-

Progress/Pages/DevelopmentCodeUpdate.aspx

“FEVERED: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health and How We

Can Save Ourselves Linda Marsa Website: www.lindamarsa.com

310-645-7955

Links to various stories written by Linda Marsa that became part of the book:

1. Breathless: This is about the effect of rising temperatures and pollution on the incidence of allergies, asthma and other diseases. This was an excerpt in Discover from the book: http://discovermagazine.com/2013/julyaug/19-californias-air-pollution-causesasthma-allergies-and-premature-births

2. This is a blog post about how the changing climate will awaken dormant diseases: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2013/08/01/climate-not-spaniardsbrought-diseases-that-killed-aztecs/ more resources on reverse side…

3. The Hot Zone. How we’ll stop the coming plague. Tropical diseases are on the move, what to expect and what we can do. This is an overview of the pending health issues we can expect as a result of climate change and a hotter environment: http://lindamarsa.com/articles

4. This is about climate change in Australia: http://discovermagazine.com/2011/dec/17-continent-where-climate-wenthaywire

5. This is about the spread of infectious diseases as temperatures rise; this story was the springboard for the book: http://discovermagazine.com/2010/dec/04-hot-zone-warming-planets-risingtide-of-disaster

6. How Vancouver became a smart growth leader--this is also an excerpt from the book: https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.1/mary-lee-and-the-butterfly-effect/print_view

7. Google Interview with Linda Marsa and Mary Pittman, CEO of Public Health

Institute: http://www.phi.org/news-events/605/linda-marsa-author-of-fevered-and-phiceo-mary-pittman-discuss-climate-change-public-health-on-google-hangout

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