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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
TU Vienna, Austria.
Function of the Project Partner: Partner
Staff
Friesenecker Michael, Project Staff
Scherner Mark, Project Staff
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;
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