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Nature-based solutions to urban heat islands and their impacts on social equality
Subproject of: Nature-based solutions to urban heat islands and their impacts on social equality (UrbanHeatEquality)
- Project Leader
- Thaler Thomas, BOKU Project Leader
- Duration:
- 01.11.2022-28.02.2025
- Programme:
- Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP)
- Type of Research
- Basic Research
- Project partners
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TU Vienna, Austria.
Function of the Project Partner: Partner
- BOKU Research Units
- Institute of Forest, Environmental and Natural Resource Policy
- Institute of Landscape Planning
- Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering
- Funded by
- Klima- und Energiefonds, Leopold-Ungar-Platz 2 / Stiege 1 / 4.OG / Top 142, 1190 Wien, Austria
- Abstract
- The projekt UrbanHeatEquality examines political processes that aim at promoting nature-based solutions (NbS) to urban heat islands in Vienna. NbS run the risk of increasing social inequalities, which can have adverse effects on the resilience of the city of Vienna and marginalized groups (e.g. people with migration background). Based on an analysis of outputs (policies, concrete projects) and outcomes (impacts on social equality and resilience), the project assesses the integration and participation of as well as consequences for marginalized groups.
- Keywords
- Applied geography; Urbanism; Urban planning;
- Poverty and social exclusion; Empirical social research; Gender studies; Sustainable urban development; Spatial research;