abstract: This research is about urban homeless people's vulnerability to extreme temperatures and the related socio-spatial dynamics. Specifically, this research investigates heat related coping strategies homeless people use and how the urban environment setting impacts those coping strategies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with homeless people in Phoenix, Arizona during the summer of 2010. The findings demonstrate that homeless people have a variety of coping strategies and the urban environment setting unjustly impacts those strategies. The results suggest a need for further studies that focus spatial environmental effects on homeless people and other vulnerable populations. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Justice Studies 2011
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:8986 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Contributors | Sanchez, Cory (Author), Johnson, John M (Advisor), Harlan, Sharon L (Committee member), Lauderdale, Pat (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 56 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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