TY - GEN
T1 - Citizens' Socioeconomic Background and Energy Accessibility during Extreme Events
AU - Talebpour, Niousha
AU - Ilbeigi, Mohammad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Climate change has led to an unprecedented increase in the frequency and intensity of heat waves around the world. Excessive heat can result in life-threatening situations for citizens, especially seniors, children, and people with chronic illnesses. Therefore, it is vital that all citizens, especially vulnerable populations, have access to air conditioning or other cooling mechanisms during heat waves. This emphasizes the criticality of electrical infrastructure to save lives during these extreme events. Previous studies indicated that the existing infrastructure systems are not equitably serving all citizens due to unjust urban development. The first step to fundamentally transform the existing processes is to better understand the problem through evidence-based and data-driven methods. Therefore, this study aims to understand inequity issues related to citizens' access to electricity during heat waves. More specifically, this study aims to empirically examine (1) whether there is a statistically significant association between citizens' socioeconomic status and their exposure to excessive heat, and (2) if there is a statistically significant association between citizens' socioeconomic status and the reliability of their access to electricity during heat waves. The outcomes of this study set the stage for equitable urban development and just infrastructure systems.
AB - Climate change has led to an unprecedented increase in the frequency and intensity of heat waves around the world. Excessive heat can result in life-threatening situations for citizens, especially seniors, children, and people with chronic illnesses. Therefore, it is vital that all citizens, especially vulnerable populations, have access to air conditioning or other cooling mechanisms during heat waves. This emphasizes the criticality of electrical infrastructure to save lives during these extreme events. Previous studies indicated that the existing infrastructure systems are not equitably serving all citizens due to unjust urban development. The first step to fundamentally transform the existing processes is to better understand the problem through evidence-based and data-driven methods. Therefore, this study aims to understand inequity issues related to citizens' access to electricity during heat waves. More specifically, this study aims to empirically examine (1) whether there is a statistically significant association between citizens' socioeconomic status and their exposure to excessive heat, and (2) if there is a statistically significant association between citizens' socioeconomic status and the reliability of their access to electricity during heat waves. The outcomes of this study set the stage for equitable urban development and just infrastructure systems.
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784485279.004
DO - 10.1061/9780784485279.004
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85188737660
T3 - Construction Research Congress 2024, CRC 2024
SP - 31
EP - 37
BT - Sustainability, Resilience, Infrastructure Systems, and Materials Design in Construction
A2 - Shane, Jennifer S.
A2 - Madson, Katherine M.
A2 - Mo, Yunjeong
A2 - Poleacovschi, Cristina
A2 - Sturgill, Roy E.
T2 - Construction Research Congress 2024, CRC 2024
Y2 - 20 March 2024 through 23 March 2024
ER -