Residential segregation and summertime air temperature across 13 northeastern U.S. states: Potential implications for energy burden.

ABSTRACT: High ambient summertime temperatures are an increasing health concern with climate change. This is a particular concern for minoritized households in the United States, for which differential energy burden may compromise adaptive capacity to high temperatures. Our research question was: Do minoritized groups experience hotter summers than the area average, and do non-Hispanic white people experience cooler summers? Using a fine-scaled spatiotemporal air temperature model and U.S. census data, we examined local (within-county) differences in warm season cooling degree days (CDDs) by ethnoracial group as a proxy for local energy demand for space cooling across states of the northeast and mid-Atlantic U.S. in 2003-2019. Using state-specific regression models adjusted for year and county, we f

SUBMITTER: Carrion D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11423957 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature