Heat and observed economic activity in the rich urban tropics

Heat and observed economic activity in the rich urban tropics

We use space-and-time resolved mobility data to assess how heat impacts Singapore, a rich city-state and arguably a harbinger of what is to come in the urbanizing tropics. Singapore’s offices, factories, malls, buses, and trains are widely air conditioned, its public schools less so. We document inc...

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Main Authors: FESSELMEYER, Eric, LIU, Haoming., SALVO, Alberto., SIMORANGKIR, Rhita P B.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
Subjects:
Urban heat
adaptive technology
defensive behaviour
heterogeneous impact
resilienceof cities
tropics
climate change
Economics
Urban Studies and Planning
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/147
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1146/viewcontent/MS20220674_accepted__1_.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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