Thermal Discomfort Levels, Building Design Concepts, and Some Heat Mitigation Strategies in Low-Income Communities of a South Asian City.

Sana Ehsan, Farhat Abbas, Muhammad Ibrahim, Bashir Ahmad, Aitazaz A Farooque

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sana EhsanDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan.

Farhat AbbasDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-2032-8527

Muhammad IbrahimDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan.

Bashir AhmadClimate Energy and Water Research Institute, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.

Aitazaz A FarooqueSchool of Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, Canada.

Government College University, Faisalabad · PKPakistan Agricultural Research Council · PKUniversity of Prince Edward Island · CA

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Abstract

Heat stress provokes thermal discomfort to people living in semiarid and arid climates. This study evaluates thermal discomfort levels, building design concepts, and some heat mitigation strategies in low-income neighborhoods of Faisalabad, Pakistan. The outdoor and indoor weather data are collected from April to August 2016 using a weather station installed ad hoc in urban settings, and the 52 houses of the five low-income participating communities living in congested and less environment-friendly areas of Faisalabad. The

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Heat Stress DisordersCitiesFemaleHot TemperatureHumansMalePakistanTemperaturearid regionsclimate changecongested areasheat stressventilation

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PMID33806383

DOI10.3390/ijerph18052535

PMCPMC7967520

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