A new study in Nature Sustainability—published by researchers from Oxford University, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, the European Institute on Economics and the Environment and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine—brings attention to a new relevant dimension of deprivation that is clearly emerging in a warming world: cooling poverty.
The proposed framework with the five core dimensions defining systemic cooling poverty and its 15 sub-dimensions or variables. The framework builds on the Multidimensional Poverty Index developed by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative 35, putting the health and education dimensions of human well-being at the core. Credit: Mazzone A et al.
The lead author of the study, Antonella Mazzone—a research affiliate with the University of Oxford—points out that"the proposed definition departs from existing concepts of energy and fuel poverty. It highlights the role of passive cooling infrastructures ,"Its systemic scope also considers the state of available cooling provision for outdoor working, education, health, and refrigeration purposes.
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