TC Lim, B Wilson, JR Grohs, TJ Pingel - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022 - Elsevier

Community-engaged heat resilience planning: Lessons from a youth smart city STEM program.

Stem education interventions

Grohs, Lim, Pingel, Wilson

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Excerpt

While recognition of the dangers of extreme heat in cities continues to grow, heat resilience remains a relatively new area of urban planning. One barrier to the creation and successful implementation of neighborhood-scale heat resilience plans has been a lack of reliable strategies for resident engagement. In this research, the authors designed a two-week summer STEM module for youth ages 12 to 14 in Roanoke, Virginia in the Southeastern United States. Participants collected and analyzed temperature and thermal comfort data of …