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Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity


Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across ...

Urban heat stress poses a major risk to public health. Case studies of individual cities suggest that heat exposure, ...

Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity ... - PubMed

Urban heat stress poses a major risk to public health. Case studies of individual cities suggest that heat exposure, ...

Urban Heat Hot Spots | Climate Central

The heat island effect can result in significant temperature differences between rural and urban areas.” Most of the planet is warming due to ...

Heat Islands and Equity | US EPA

The current body of scientific evidence shows that community members with low incomes and communities of color are disproportionately exposed to heat islands.

Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across ...

The authors show that people of color and people living in poverty bear a disproportionate burden of urban heat exposure in almost all major cities in the ...

Disproportionate exposure to surface-urban heat islands across ...

It varies between intra-urban areas and this difference is called surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect. We aimed to assess SUHI distribution ...

Everything you need to know about the urban heat island effect

The heat island effect occurs in urban areas where buildings, roads and other infrastructure absorb and re-emit heat from the sun.

Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island - ProQuest

Urban heat stress poses a major risk to public health. Case studies of individual cities suggest that heat exposure, like other environmental stressors, ...

Disproportionate Exposure to Urban Heat Island Intensity Across ...

This article explores the inequitable distribution of the risks associated with extreme heat events. Some of the findings suggest that non-white and low-income ...

Urban heat islands and a climate of inequities

The lack of vegetation and abundance of heat-absorbing infrastructure are not the only factors contributing to the UHI effect. UHIs can be ...

Publisher Correction: Disproportionate exposure to urban heat ...

Publisher Correction: Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities ... Correction to: Nature Communications ...

Population-Based Disparities in U.S. Urban Heat Exposure from ...

Due to variations in the surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect, communities that have historically been marginalized are exposed to ...

Report Reveals Inequities in the Exposure to the Urban Heat Island ...

“The threat that the Urban Heat Island effect poses to public health, especially for people of color, will only grow as climate change ...

Disproportionately higher exposure to urban heat in lower-income ...

A growing literature documents the effects of heat stress on premature mortality and other adverse health outcomes. Urban heat islands (UHI) can exacerbate ...

Demographic disparity in diurnal surface urban Heat Island ...

Chongqing's SUHI intensity in compact LCZs is much higher than in open LCZs. ... CLZ has the highest SUHI exposure and intra-group disparity in ...

(PDF) Disproportionate Exposure to Urban Heat Island Across Major ...

... These factors were considered as the independent variables. On the other hand, the average day UHI intensity of each census tract in the State of New Jersey ...

Widespread Race and Class Disparities in Surface Urban Heat ...

Systematically, the disproportionate heat surface exposures faced by minority communities are due to more built-up neighborhoods, less ...

Global urban population exposure to extreme heat - PNAS

Increased extreme heat exposure from both climate change and the urban heat island effect threatens rapidly growing urban settlements worldwide.

Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity

Exposure to urban heat islands poses a major health risk, and there is a growing body of literature recognising that urban population groups ...

Exploring Disparities and Solutions to U.S. Urban Heat Stress and ...

The burden of urban heat stress is not distributed equally across cities; In the U.S., people of color and low-income individuals disproportionately live in ...