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Vulnerability of and adaption strategies for migrant groups in urban heat environments

Project Leader
Arnberger Arne, BOKU Project Leader
Duration:
01.04.2014-31.10.2017
Programme:
Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP) - Individual Project
Type of Research
Applied Research
Project partners
Med Uni Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, 1090 Wien, Austria.
Function of the Project Partner: Partner
University of Vienna_x000D_ Institute of Sociology_x000D_ , Rooseveltplatz 2, 1090 Wien, Austria.
Function of the Project Partner: Partner
Staff
Allex Brigitte, Sub Projectleader (bis 30.09.2021)
Eder Renate, Project Staff
Preisel Hemma, Project Staff
BOKU Research Units
Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning
Funded by
ACRP, Austria
Abstract
The no. of migrants in cities is increasing. Many have deficient social, health and housing conditions and live in urban heat islands. The project’s objective is the reduction of migrants’ vulnerability against urban heat with participatory mixed-methods design. It investigates
migrants’attitudes towards climate change, awareness of heat risks, adaptive behavior, comparison to natives; identification of high-risk groups; development of sustainable measures and health information channels with stakeholders, intermediaries and migrants.
Final product is a Heat Toolbox.
Keywords
Climate change; Environmental research; Health policy; Public health; Empirical social research; Migration research; Urban development planning;
adaptation; awareness rising; urban heat environments; climate change; migrant groups;
Publications

** Arnberger, A; Allex, B; Eder, R; Wanka, A; Kolland, F; Wiesbock, L; Mayrhuber, EAS; Kutalek, R; Wallner, P; Hutter, HP Changes in recreation use in response to urban heat differ between migrant and non-migrant green space users in Vienna, Austria.

URBAN FOR URBAN GREE. 2021; 63, 127193 WoS FullText FullText_BOKU

** Mayrhuber, EAS; Duckers, MLA; Wallner, P; Arnberger, A; Allex, B; Wiesbock, L; Wanka, A; Kolland, F; Eder, R; Hutter, HP; Kutalek, R Vulnerability to heatwaves and implications for public health interventions - A scoping review.

ENVIRON RES. 2018; 166: 42-54. WoS PubMed FullText FullText_BOKU

MAYRHUBER, E., KUTALEK, R., ALLEX, B., HUTTER, H.-P., WALLNER, P., EDER, R., ARNBERGER, A. (2016): Heat Vulnerabilities in Urban Migrant Communities: A Mixed- Methods Study from Vienna.
[3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 2016, Vienna, Austria, 10.07.2016 - 14.07.2016]

In: ISA, THE FUTURES WE WANT: GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY AND THE STRUGGLES FOR A BETTER WORLD - BOOK OF ABSTRACTS, p. 461

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