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DOI	10.3390/ijerph18052535
	Thermal Discomfort Levels, Building Design Concepts, and Some Heat Mitigation Strategies in Low-Income Communities of a South Asian City
	Ehsan, Sana; Abbas, Farhat; Ibrahim, Muhammad; Ahmad, Bashir; Farooque, Aitazaz A.
通讯作者	Abbas, F ; Ibrahim, M (corresponding author), Govt Coll Univ Faisalabad, Dept Environm Sci & Engn, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan. ; Abbas, F ; Farooque, AA (corresponding author), Univ Prince Edward Isl, Sch Climate Change & Adaptat, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, Canada. ; Farooque, AA (corresponding author), Univ Prince Edward Isl, Fac Sustainable Design Engn, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, Canada.
来源期刊	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
EISSN	1660-4601
出版年	2021
卷号	18 期号:5
英文摘要	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 discomfort index values, related to the building design concepts, including (i) house orientation to sunlight and (ii) house ventilation, are calculated from outdoor and indoor dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperatures. Our results show that although June was the hottest month of summer 2016, based on the monthly mean temperature of the Faisalabad region, the month of May produced the highest discomfort levels, which were higher in houses exposed to sunlight and without ventilation. The study also identifies some popular heat mitigation strategies adopted by the five participating low-income communities during various heat-related health complaints. The strategies are gender-biased and have medical, cultural/customary backgrounds. For example, about 52% of the males and 28% of the females drank more water during dehydration, diarrhea, and eye infection. Over 11% and 19% of the males and females, respectively, moved to cooler places during fever. About 43% of the males and 51% of the females took water showers and rested to combat flu (runny nose), headache, and nosebleed. The people did not know how to cure muscular fatigue, skin allergy (from a type of Milia), and mild temperature. Planting trees in an area and developing open parks with greenery and thick canopy trees can be beneficial for neighborhoods resembling those evaluated in this study.
英文关键词	climate change heat stress congested areas ventilation arid regions
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000628157200001
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/350582
作者单位	[Ehsan, Sana; Abbas, Farhat; Ibrahim, Muhammad] Govt Coll Univ Faisalabad, Dept Environm Sci & Engn, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan; [Abbas, Farhat; Farooque, Aitazaz A.] Univ Prince Edward Isl, Sch Climate Change & Adaptat, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, Canada; [Ahmad, Bashir] Pakistan Agr Res Council, Climate Energy & Water Res Inst, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan; [Farooque, Aitazaz A.] Univ Prince Edward Isl, Fac Sustainable Design Engn, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ehsan, Sana,Abbas, Farhat,Ibrahim, Muhammad,et al. Thermal Discomfort Levels, Building Design Concepts, and Some Heat Mitigation Strategies in Low-Income Communities of a South Asian City[J],2021,18(5).
APA	Ehsan, Sana,Abbas, Farhat,Ibrahim, Muhammad,Ahmad, Bashir,&Farooque, Aitazaz A..(2021).Thermal Discomfort Levels, Building Design Concepts, and Some Heat Mitigation Strategies in Low-Income Communities of a South Asian City.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,18(5).
MLA	Ehsan, Sana,et al."Thermal Discomfort Levels, Building Design Concepts, and Some Heat Mitigation Strategies in Low-Income Communities of a South Asian City".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 18.5(2021).