Heat stress : adaptation measures in South African informal settlements

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dc.contributor.author Hugo, Jan Marais
dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-18T12:04:37Z
dc.date.available 2024-04-18T12:04:37Z
dc.date.issued 2023-01-12
dc.description DATA AVAILABILITY : The data underpinning this project are available at the following online repository: 10.25403/UPresearchdata.21747443. en_US
dc.description.abstract Globally extreme weather events are experienced most acutely in cities. While formal settlements can respond to such events, informal settlements are often vulnerable and illprepared. Sub-Saharan Africa is rapidly urbanising with informal settlements that require effective climate change adaptation measures. Two climate adaptation strategies for informal dwellings are considered for their success under 2100 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate scenarios. Using existing data collected from informal dwellings in South Africa, the findings from a digital simulation study reveal that cool roof paints can currently lower excessive heat stress conditions by 42–63% when applied to high thermal mass dwellings with poorly insulated lightweight corrugated sheeting roofing. However, for the future 2100 climate scenarios this strategy only lowers excessive heat stress conditions by 12–17%. This calls for the development of integrated multifaceted heat stress adaptation strategies for informal settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa. en_US
dc.description.department Architecture en_US
dc.description.librarian am2024 en_US
dc.description.sdg SDG-11:Sustainable cities and communities en_US
dc.description.sponsorship The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) One Health For Change (UP-OHC) project and is part of the University of Pretoria Built Environment and Public Health Nexus project. en_US
dc.description.uri https://journal-buildingscities.org en_US
dc.identifier.citation Hugo, J. M. (2023). Heat stress: adaptation measures in South African informal settlements. Buildings and Cities, 4(1), pp. 55–73. DOI: https://DOI.org/10.5334/bc.269. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2632-6655
dc.identifier.other 10.5334/bc.269
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/95653
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Ubiquity Press en_US
dc.rights © 2023 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0). en_US
dc.subject Informal settlements en_US
dc.subject Climate change adaptation en_US
dc.subject Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) en_US
dc.subject Heat stress en_US
dc.subject SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities en_US
dc.title Heat stress : adaptation measures in South African informal settlements en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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