Description
This research is about urban homeless people's vulnerability to extreme temperatures and the related socio-spatial dynamics. Specifically, this research investigates heat related coping strategies homeless people use and how the urban environment setting impacts those coping strategies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with homeless people in Phoenix, Arizona during the summer of 2010. The findings demonstrate that homeless people have a variety of coping strategies and the urban environment setting unjustly impacts those strategies. The results suggest a need for further studies that focus spatial environmental effects on homeless people and other vulnerable populations.
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Title
- Tricks of the shade: heat-related coping strategies of urban homeless persons in Phoenix, Arizona
Contributors
- Sanchez, Cory (Author)
- Johnson, John M. (Thesis advisor)
- Harlan, Sharon L (Committee member)
- Lauderdale, Pat (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2011
Subjects
- Social Research
- Environmental Studies
- Heat-Related Coping Strategies
- homelessness
- Phoenix
- Arizona
- Public Spaces
- Urban Environment
- vulnerability
- Homeless persons--Arizona--Phoenix.
- Homeless persons
- Body temperature--Environmental aspects.
- Body temperature
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--Arizona--Phoenix.
- Urban ecology (Sociology)
- Public spaces--Arizona--Phoenix.
- Public Spaces
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Note
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Vita
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thesisPartial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2011
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bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 42-44)
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Field of study: Justice studies
Citation and reuse
Statement of Responsibility
by Cory Sanchez