Abdullah, Adam

Amin, Sadia

Amir, Sulfikar

Anwar, Nausheen H.

Campbell, Kirsten

Nandatama, Yemiko H.

Khandekar, Aalok

Latha, PK

Mehmood, Sajid

Morelle, Marie

Toheed, Muhammad

Nastiti, Anindrya

Ramadhan, Dani M.

Shanmugam, Rekha

Ufaira, Rifda

Venugopal, Vidhya

Wasiah, Nadiyatur

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The research on which this report was based was funded by the UK Research and Innovation and the Global Challenges Research Fund through the Economic and Social Research Council (Award ES/T008091/1) and by the Scottish Funding Council as part of Cool Infrastructures, a multi-disciplinary project into life with heat in global cities. We also thank the Norwegian Red Cross and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for publication support.

The study provides substantial new data on the direct as well as indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, thermal comfort and heat-related illness, in Jakarta (Indonesia), Hyderabad (India), Karachi and Hyderabad (Pakistan) and Douala (Cameroon). These cities are home to very large or rapidly growing low-income populations dealing with extreme heat. Alongside data on heat exposure and symptoms associated with heat-related illness, the report supplies supplementary data points on access to electricity, water, food, health services, as well as income and food intake during the COVID-19 pandemic, that will be of use to policy makers and researchers. The report is intended for use by governmental and non-governmental organisations in these cities and countries as they work to fine-tune policy and programme responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and avoid heat-related health impacts. Its broader findings are intended to be of use to inform interventions in urban areas facing similar challenges across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and South East Asia.

Oppermann, Elspeth, Friedrich, Daniel and Jamie Cross (eds). 2022. Extreme Heat and COVID-19: The Impact on the Urban Poor in Asia and Africa. Cool Infrastructures: Life with Heat in the Off-grid City.

https://hdl.handle.net/1842/38925

http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/2177

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