Vulnerability to Extreme Heat in Metropolitan Phoenix: Spatial, Temporal, and Demographic Dimensions

Chow, Winston; Chuang, Wen Ching; Gober, Patricia

doi:10.1080/00330124.2011.600225

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“…In comparison to hydrometeorological hazards, historically there have been few attempts to map heat risk based on an application of heat vulnerability indices. This situation is changing, however, with a number of heat vulnerability studies emerging in the literature for London (Abrahamson and Raine 2009;Mavrogianni et al 2009;Oven et al 2012) and elsewhere (Bl€ attner et al 2009;Harlan et al 2006;Hondula et al 2012;Harlan et al 2013;Johnson and Wilson 2009;Reid et al 2009;Rinner et al 2010;Smoyer 1998;Tomlinson et al 2011;Uejio et al 2011;Vescovi et al 2005;Wilhelmi 2004;Cutter et al 2003;Chow et al 2012;Loughnan et al 2012). These studies add to a literature that focuses on place-based assessments of vulnerability, which have emerged since Smoyer's (1998) analysis of spatial risk factors for mortality during heat waves in St. Louis, Missouri.…”

Section: Heat Vulnerability Indices and Mapping In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The associations between outdoor human thermal comfort and other variables were tested using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation coefficients (Harlan et al 2006). Similarly, Harlan et al (2013) estimated neighborhood effects of population characteristics and the built and natural environments on deaths due to heat exposure in Maricopa County, Arizona (2000-08), using census data and remotely sensed vegetation and land surface temperature to construct and test indicators of neighborhood vulnerability, while Chow et al (2012) combined spatially interpolated climate, normalized vegetation difference index, and U.S. Census data to construct maps of heat vulnerability (Chow et al 2012).…”

Section: Heat Vulnerability Indices and Mapping In Contextmentioning

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Performance Assessment of a Heat Wave Vulnerability Index for Greater London, United Kingdom

Wolf

McGregor

Analitis

2014

Weather, Climate, and Society

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Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. ABSTRACTThis study reports on the assessment of a multivariate heat wave vulnerability index (HVI) developed for London, United Kingdom. The HVI is assessed in terms of its ability to predict whether mortality and ambulance callout attain above average levels during heat wave events. Three approaches to assessment were adopted: 1) calculation of categorical statistics and associated skill scores for the dichotomous situation that above average mortality or ambulance callout occurred or not, 2) the degree to which relative risk of the aforementioned health outcomes changed with an increase in heat vulnerability as established using Poisson regression analysis, and 3) an independent samples test of the difference of mean mortality and ambulance callout between census units with and without high heat exposure and high vulnerability. The assessment results reveal that the HVI and a simple single variable index that represents age as a heat risk factor (the elderly index) offer potential as a priori indicators of the level of ambulance callout and mortality for all summer days and heat wave events, respectively. Based on the assessment results the utility of the HVI for heat risk management is discussed.

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Section: Heat Vulnerability Indices and Mapping In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Heat Vulnerability Indices and Mapping In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance Assessment of a Heat Wave Vulnerability Index for Greater London, United Kingdom

Wolf

McGregor

Analitis

2014

Weather, Climate, and Society

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“…Lo, Qiattrochi, & Luvall, 1997;Streutker, 2002);and [2] direct spatial linkages of ground features, both their vertical dimensions and patterns, to land surface temperature at fine spatial resolutions (e.g. Arnfield, 2003;Buyantuyev & Wu, 2010;Chow, Chuang, & Gober, 2012;Nichol, 1996;Unger, 2004). To date, this research has focused on the relationship between land surface temperature (LST) and particular land-cover types (or land composition) (e.g.…”

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Remote sensing of the surface urban heat island and land architecture in Phoenix, Arizona: Combined effects of land composition and configuration and cadastral–demographic–economic factors

Middel

et al. 2016

Remote Sensing of Environment

194

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This study seeks to determine the role of land architecture-the composition and configuration of land cover-as well as cadastral-demographic-economic factors on land surface temperature (LST) and the surface urban heat island effect of Phoenix, Arizona. It employs 1 m National Agricultural Imagery Program data of land-cover with 120 m Landsat-derived land surface temperature, decomposed to 30 m, a new measure of configuration, the normalized moment of inertia, and U.S. Census data to address the question for two randomly selected samples comprising 523 and 545 residential neighborhoods (census blocks) in the city. The results indicate that, contrary to most other studies, land configuration has a stronger influence on LST than land composition. In addition, both land configuration and architecture combined with cadastral, demographic, and economic variables, capture a significant amount of explained variance in LST. The results indicate that attention to land architecture in the development of or reshaping of neighborhoods may ameliorate the summer extremes in LST.

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“…Trees and watered vegetation (when it exists), can offer respite from the warmest days [79] but southwest cities have less tree canopy than cities in more temperate climates. Temperate cites tend to be located in places that were forested while tree canopy in southwest cities is a result of afforestation efforts and must be balanced with water resources [80][81][82]. Yet, urban shading is a component of cooling the urban atmosphere and an aspect of infrastructure.…”

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Urban Heat Stress Vulnerability in the U.S. Southwest: The Role of Sociotechnical Systems

2016

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Heat vulnerability of urban populations is becoming a major issue of concern with climate change, particularly in the cities of the Southwest United States. In this article we discuss the importance of understanding coupled social and technical systems, how they constitute one another, and how they form the conditions and circumstances in which people experience heat. We discuss the particular situation of Los Angeles and Maricopa Counties, their urban form and the electric grid. We show how vulnerable populations are created by virtue of the age and construction of buildings, the morphology of roads and distribution of buildings on the landscape. Further, the regulatory infrastructure of electricity generation and distribution also contributes to creating differential vulnerability. We contribute to a better understanding of the importance of sociotechnical systems. Social infrastructure includes codes, conventions, rules and regulations; technical systems are the hard systems of pipes, wires, buildings, roads, and power plants. These interact to create lock-in that is an obstacle to addressing issues such as urban heat stress in a novel and equitable manner.

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Vulnerability to Extreme Heat in Metropolitan Phoenix: Spatial, Temporal, and Demographic Dimensions

Cited by 143 publications

References 44 publications

Performance Assessment of a Heat Wave Vulnerability Index for Greater London, United Kingdom

Performance Assessment of a Heat Wave Vulnerability Index for Greater London, United Kingdom

Remote sensing of the surface urban heat island and land architecture in Phoenix, Arizona: Combined effects of land composition and configuration and cadastral–demographic–economic factors

Urban Heat Stress Vulnerability in the U.S. Southwest: The Role of Sociotechnical Systems

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