Authors : Mohd Hairy Ibrahim, Kamarul Ismail and Mazlini Adnan
Abstract: This study analyse human awareness toward the impact of urban climate changes effect on health in Ipoh City, Perak. These effect happened due rapid urban surfaces changes. Rapid urbanisation resulted in industrial and population increment include businesses and commercials expasion that brought wider open surface in Ipoh. Element of urban climate changes such temperature and air pollution has also been associated to contributing factor that resulted in urban climate change in Ipoh City. The discussion in this study will be based on primary and secondary data from survey about urban climate change awareness and its effect to human health in Ipoh City. The analysis are limited to descriptive and inference statistics. The finding found that 534 respondents from Ipoh population stated that they alert about urban climate changes had been disturbed by rapid urbanisation. About 463 of these respondent (86.7%) agreed that warmer climate happened in the centre of Ipoh compared to the suburban. This can be associated to possible urban heat island having developed in Ipoh area. The result also found a significantly awareness toward health effect from cement industry and quarry activities which have negative feelings among the local resident and their appreciation on urban environment changes. Lastly, several suggestions were proposed to manage the urban climate change dan health in Ipoh City.
Mohd Hairy Ibrahim, Kamarul Ismail and Mazlini Adnan, 2017. Human Awareness of Urban Climate Change Effects on Health in Ipoh City, Malaysia. The Social Sciences, 12: 1770-1774.