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DOI | 10.1038/s41467-021-22799-5 |
Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities | |
Hsu A.; Sheriff G.; Chakraborty T.; Manya D. | |
发表日期 | 2021 |
ISSN | 2041-1723 |
卷号 | 12期号:1 |
英文摘要 | Urban heat stress poses a major risk to public health. Case studies of individual cities suggest that heat exposure, like other environmental stressors, may be unequally distributed across income groups. There is little evidence, however, as to whether such disparities are pervasive. We combine surface urban heat island (SUHI) data, a proxy for isolating the urban contribution to additional heat exposure in built environments, with census tract-level demographic data to answer these questions for summer days, when heat exposure is likely to be at a maximum. We find that the average person of color lives in a census tract with higher SUHI intensity than non-Hispanic whites in all but 6 of the 175 largest urbanized areas in the continental United States. A similar pattern emerges for people living in households below the poverty line relative to those at more than two times the poverty line. © 2021, The Author(s). |
语种 | 英语 |
scopus关键词 | demography; environmental stress; heat island; income; poverty; risk assessment; Article; built environment; Caucasian; city; heat; human; summer; thermal exposure; United States; urban area; adverse event; African American; environmental exposure; ethnology; geography; health disparity; heat injury; Hispanic; income; Maryland; poverty; South Carolina; urban health; United States; Pierinae; African Americans; Cities; Environmental Exposure; European Continental Ancestry Group; Geography; Health Status Disparities; Heat Stress Disorders; Hispanic Americans; Hot Temperature; Humans; Income; Maryland; Poverty; South Carolina; United States; Urban Health |
来源期刊 | Nature Communications |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/250686 |
作者单位 | Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Singapore; School of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States; Data-Driven EnviroLab, Singapore, Singapore; School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States; School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hsu A.,Sheriff G.,Chakraborty T.,et al. Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities[J],2021,12(1). |
APA | Hsu A.,Sheriff G.,Chakraborty T.,&Manya D..(2021).Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities.Nature Communications,12(1). |
MLA | Hsu A.,et al."Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities".Nature Communications 12.1(2021). |
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