Rising temperatures are becoming a growing challenge in the Netherlands, with consequences being experienced unequally amongst the population. This tool highlights climate-related health risks across four key themes, identifies the most vulnerable areas and suggests potential interventions to help policymakers and communities with addressing it effectively.
Search for a municipality or browse by province to see neighborhood-level vulnerability across four drivers plus a composite risk score - and receive targeted intervention recommendations.
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Heat-health vulnerability is not only produced by exposure, population sensitivity, and housing conditions. It also depends on whether evidence can be translated into municipal priorities, routines, and intervention timing.
Dense urban neighbourhoods with little vegetation and high shares of dark surfaces experience substantially higher heat stress than surrounding areas.
Elderly residents, young children, people with frail health, and low-income households face compounding barriers to self-protection during heat events.
Older housing, limited green space, poor cooling access, and rental constraints can turn outdoor heat exposure into a local public-health problem.
Dutch climate adaptation has long been shaped by collective experience with water and flood protection. Heat-health risks are newer, less visible, and harder to fit into established municipal routines.