This research resulted from an exciting collaboration between the @tsuoxford.bsky.social and the Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University.
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk
geog.hkbu.edu.hk
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
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🌍 Everyday adaptation to summer heatwaves is an international phenomenon
🏠 Withdrawal towards the home is the most common adaptive strategy
❌ Not all activities are abandoned equally
↔️ Adaptation can also involve visiting non-home, potentially cooling locations
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In this study, we examine how people across 7 countries (🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇨🇳 China, 🇫🇷 France, 🇮🇳 India, 🇳🇬Nigeria, 🇹🇷 Turkey, 🇺🇲 United States) adapt their everyday activities to cope with the threat of summer heatwaves.
We reach the following conclusions...
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🌆 ☀️ Very excited to share our latest publication: “Adapting everyday activities to summer heatwaves: a multi-country analysis of mobile phone location data” with Yuan Liang, Donggen Wang, and
@timschwanen.bsky.social
Environmental Research: Climate link: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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In this study, we examine how people across 7 countries (🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇨🇳 China, 🇫🇷 France, 🇮🇳 India, 🇳🇬Nigeria, 🇹🇷 Turkey, 🇺🇲 United States) adapt their everyday activities to cope with the threat of summer heatwaves.
We reach the following conclusions...
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Great to see recent research from @sgyucel.bsky.social & @timschwanen.bsky.social highlighted in Nature Climate Change. bsky.app/profile/sgyu...
🔗 Here is the link to the research highlight: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 and the original study in Global Environmental Change: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@tsuoxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
⭐ Fantastic to see recent work w/ @timschwanen.bsky.social featured as a Research Highlight in the latest issue of Nature Climate Change. In this work, we examine how people across the Pacific Northwest of North America adapt their various everyday activities to cope with the threat of heatwaves.
Thank you very much to the SSHRC-CRSH and the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund (CCSF) for their generous support on this work.
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social @tsuoxford.bsky.social
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We find:
•People’s adaptive responses to heatwaves vary with regional climate.
•Absolute and relative heatwave intensities condition adaptation.
•Adaptation is a dynamic process that evolves over time.
•Urban form and socio-economic disparities influence activity trade-offs during heatwaves.
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Using cell phone mobility, climate, and census data, we simultaneously model how people's everyday activities (home, work, transit, grocery/pharmacy, retail/recreation, park) change together during heatwaves across the Pacific Northwest of North America.
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This paper contextualizes heatwaves within people’s everyday lives, highlighting how daily activities and obligations condition behavioural adaptations across the Pacific Northwest of North America (British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California).
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Given that these ever-worsening heatwaves occur alongside people's daily lives, there is an urgent need to understand how people adapt and the underlying structures which influence how they can protect themselves.
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Last month alone (June 2025), extreme heat killed 2300 people across 12 major European cities, two-thirds of which are attributed to the ongoing climate crisis.
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📕 New paper out w/ @timschwanen.bsky.social in Global Environmental Change: "Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analyzing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers"📕
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Special thank you to @timschwanen.bsky.social for his support and insightful feedback throughout the project.
@tsuoxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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This study highlights how wide-ranging social factors mediate people's exposure and adaptive responses to heatwaves across England.
🔗 For those interested in reading more, the full study is linked here: lnkd.in/dYuZW_6Y
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3️⃣ Medical services are sought more by people who rent their homes and less by non-white individuals during extreme heatwaves
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1️⃣ People working or having worked in routine/manual occupations are less likely to shelter at home during extreme heatwaves
2️⃣ Older individuals remain more active during extreme heatwaves while those with mobility difficulties are more likely to shelter at home
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People widely shelter at home during extreme heatwaves but remain slightly more active during moderate ones; however, there are important differences in adaptation according to the heat-related vulnerability factors of those exposed:
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Using England’s National Travel Survey (2007–2019), this study examines how people adapt to heatwaves—by staying home or seeking medical services—across different heat intensities and detailed factors related to socio-demographics, health, employment, housing, and spatio-temporal context.
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Heatwaves are commonly known as 'social disasters' which prey on existing inequalities. Despite growing concern for heatwaves globally, little is known about the social processes which shape heat exposure and limit people's capacities to adapt.
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🚨 Excited to share the pre-print for the 3rd paper from my DPhil research! 🚨
"The joint impact of summer heatwave intensity and heat-vulnerability factors on adaptive responses: A case study using England's National Travel Survey"
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ah I see it's "photo of people enjoying sunshine to illustrate mass heatwave deaths" season again.
We are delighted to announce that @ccriadoperez.bsky.social will be giving our Annual Lecture for 2025 on Women, travel and data bias. Book now to join us www.eventbrite.co.uk/manage/event...
This research resulted from an exciting collaboration between the @tsuoxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social and the Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk
geog.hkbu.edu.hk
Full link to pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/so...
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🌍 Everyday adaptation to heatwaves is a global phenomenon
🏠 Withdrawal towards the home is the most common adaptive strategy
❌ Not all activities are abandoned equally
↔️ Adaptation is more than staying home -- sometimes involves visiting non-home, potentially cooling facilities
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In this study, we examine how people across 7 countries (🇧🇷🇨🇳🇫🇷🇮🇳🇳🇬🇹🇷🇺🇲) adapt their everyday activities to cope with the threat of extreme heat. Combining cell phone mobility, weather/climate, socio-demographic, and physical-geographic data, we reach the following conclusions:...
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🌆 ☀️ New pre-print online! “Everyday adaptation to summer heatwaves: A global perspective” with Yuan Liang, Donggen Wang, and @timschwanen.bsky.social.
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Full link to pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/so...
