Cool Infrastructures brings together a team of researchers to produce context-based studies of exposure and adaptation to heat in cities across south Asia, southeast Asia, and west Africa.
About us
We an international, interdisciplinary team of anthropologists, geographers, engineers, urban planners, architects, and epidemiologists studying exposure and adaptation to heat in cities across south Asia, southeast Asia and west Africa.
Our multi-disciplinary perspectives set out to inform planning interventions and climate change policy, as well as our understandings of thermal politics. Our empirical work foregrounds the intersections between socio-economic and gendered inequality, and draws attention to people’s everyday practices for managing chronic and acute heat.
We are funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council as part of the Global Challenges Research Fund, a £1.5 billion scheme to support cutting edge research and global impact towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
