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Title
Tricks of the shade: heat-related coping strategies of urban homeless persons in Phoenix, Arizona
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.
Date Created
2011
Contributors
- Sanchez, Cory (Author)
- Johnson, John M. (Thesis advisor)
- Harlan, Sharon L (Committee member)
- Lauderdale, Pat (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- 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
Geographic Subject
Resource Type
Extent
vi, 48 p
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8986
Statement of Responsibility
by Cory Sanchez
Description Source
Viewed on March 27, 2012
Level of coding
full
Note
Vita
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2011
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-44)
Field of study: Justice studies
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- 2021-08-30 01:54:35
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