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Journal Article
Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities
2021
Overview
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.
Individual exposure to heat is associated with adverse health and economic outcomes. Here, 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 continental United States.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
Subject
/ 704/844
/ Black or African American - statistics & numerical data
/ Census
/ Cities
/ Environmental Exposure - adverse effects
/ Environmental Exposure - analysis
/ Exposure
/ Heat
/ Heat Stress Disorders - ethnology
/ Hispanic or Latino - statistics & numerical data
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Income - statistics & numerical data
/ Maryland
/ Poverty
/ Poverty - statistics & numerical data
/ Science
