Researcher - Lora Phillips
Engaged Convergence Research: An Exploratory Approach to Heat Resilience in Mobile Homes
Due to climate change, extreme weather events are becoming more common, more severe, and are lasting longer. However, the impacts associated with these events are not evenly distributed across the population. Using the case of extreme heat, this research seeks to understand why residents of mobile homes are disproportionately likely to perish from indoor heat exposure relative to residents of other housing types. Employing a mixed methods, interdisciplinary, and community engaged approach, we identify individual, social, physical environmental, and programmatic factors that increase the health risks faced by mobile home residents due to extreme heat.
Engaged Convergence Research: An Exploratory Approach to Heat Resilience in Mobile Homes. The Professional Geographer.
Researcher
Lora Phillips
Assistant Professor, Sociologylphill33@uwo.ca
