Study: Low-income Phoenix residents more likely to feel affects of urban heat
Scientists, like geographer Darren Ruddell, who earned his doctorate this past May from Arizona State University's School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, call this phenomenon the "heat island effect." Ruddell is now a postdoctoral associate in ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability.
"It's an environmental-justice issue. The people who are most vulnerable are also living in the worst conditions. It's a double whammy," says Ruddell in the article written by reporter Shaun McKinnon.
Sharon Harlan, an associate professor in ASU's School of Human Evolution and Social Change is another researcher who studied 40 neighborhoods in the Phoenix metropolitan area in July 2005.
"Wealth can buy options that let people change their indoor and outdoor environments," says Harlan in the Arizona Republic story.
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