University of Haifa scholars Prof. Tally Katz-Gerro, Prof. Maya Negev, and Dr. Asaf Levanon have been awarded a grant from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) for their project on Equitable Resilience to Heat. Their research aims to assess the impact of community coordination and policy in two coastal cities. To date, the effects of social diversity on heat exposure risks have not been thoroughly investigated, especially concerning households experiencing deprivation and poverty. The University of Haifa researchers plan to address this gap in the existing knowledge.

The research will use a variety of methods, combining surveys, in-depth interviews and computer models for describing and predicting behavior, and adopting a comparative research approach in which two socially/economically diverse cities will be examined – Boston in the USA and Haifa in Israel.