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Heat vulnerability follows more than temperature, and this global map exposes the overlooked fault lines

A Nature Sustainability paper titled "A multidimensional assessment of Systemic Cooling Poverty in the Global South," provides the first large-scale, multidimensional measurement of Systemic Cooling Poverty (SCP)—defined as situations in which individuals are "prevented from attaining thermal safety...

Heat vulnerability follows more than temperature, and this global map exposes the overlooked fault lines
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A Nature Sustainability paper titled "A multidimensional assessment of Systemic Cooling Poverty in the Global South," provides the first large-scale, multidimensional measurement of Systemic Cooling Poverty (SCP)—defined as situations in which individuals are "prevented from attaining thermal safety as a result of intersecting forms of systemic deprivation."

Originally published at Phys.org

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