Tag: climate data
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Studying Heat in Informal Settlements: A Note on Methods
The Cool Infrastructures project aims to understand all the ways in which heat plays a role in people’s lives. In particular, the project asks how people who live in informal settlements, whose location on the “grid” is tenuous, deal with, adapt to, and conceive of heat. Questions and Data In order to start answering these…
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Understanding Extreme Heat in Informal Settlements: A Teaching Module
Increasing incidence of events of extreme heat – higher temperatures and longerspells of higher temperatures – have been a matter of concern for institutions ofurban governance for the past decade. In India heat is largely understood in terms of disaster management framework. Governmental response has been limited to metropolitan regions and in a more diffused…
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The City that Cannot Sleep: Heat in Low-income Neighbourhoods
People in Singareni Colony – partly an off-grid urban informal settlement and partly a VAMBAY housing colony in south-east Hyderabad – live in houses that feel like blazing ovens. Even getting some quality sleep becomes a far cry in the summer. Sandwiched between different kinds of heat-trapping material and walls of congested houses without ample…
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Data Dashboard – Climatic Data from 2 Locations in Hyderabad
Contributors and workers: Abhijit Trimukhe, Chandbhai, Almas, Siraj and Swastik Harish One of the critical gaps in our understanding of heat and its impacts on people in informal settlements is simply the lack of data on temperature, humidity and other climatic parameters in such places. Weather data is typically restricted to government weather stations that…