Resources
The HUE Resources Hub was a central convening hub for products, information, data and resources related to local and regional heat and air-quality issues and solutions. Below you will find links to each of the resources that HUE developed. This hub is intended to be a living collection, and will continue to expand as new resources are developed and published.
HUE Final Report
This final report highlights the diverse projects that the Healthy Urban Environments (HUE) initiative funded over its 4-year span. HUE supported thirty-three solutions-oriented, community-engaged projects using innovative approaches and partnerships to address issues of heat and air quality across Maricopa County.”
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Staying Safe in the Heat – A Guide for Workers
The Healthy Urban Environment (HUE) Initiative developed a brochure and webpage to provide heat resources for outside workers and bring more awareness to heat health.
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The Phoenix Regional Heat and Air Quality Knowledge Repository
The Phoenix Regional Heat and Air Quality Knowledge Repository is a collaborative collection of literature, data sets, and reports generated by practitioners, researchers, community groups, and other regional stakeholders that may be informative for local and regional efforts mitigating the adverse impacts of heat.
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Operating Cooling Centers in Arizona Under COVID-19 and Record Heat Conditions: Lessons Learned from Summer 2020
April 2021
Summary: Cooling centers are important community resources for protecting the public from adverse health effects of extreme heat. In the summer of 2020, the combination of the Covid-19 pandemic and record-setting heat across much of the Southwestern United States posed significant challenges for cooling center operations. This report describes the circumstances surrounding cooling center operations in 2020 in Arizona, presents examples of successful cooling center practices during the pandemic, and provides more general lessons learned about operating heat interventions during a time of compounding and intersecting hazards.
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Heat and Health Maps for Decision Making in Tempe
Heat and Health Maps for Decision Making in Tempe is focused on compiling, integrating, synthesizing and applying data and information, specifically about heat, health, and equity, with the goal to apply this knowledge in planning projects across city departments; in essence: to build a city-wide practice of incorporating heat planning and management. Complementing this was an emphasis on building a foundation for practice- and community-oriented heat literacy. This project is a collaboration between the City of Tempe and ASU.
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Encouraging Teleworking as a Strategy to Reduce Ozone from Commute Trips in Maricopa County
By the time of the COVID-19 global pandemic in 2020, robust teleworking programs had existed for many years across both the private and the public sectors and multiple levels of government. Yet prior to the pandemic, most organizations were still hesitant to fully embrace teleworking due to concerns about work quality, loss of control, lack of appropriate equipment, and other reasons. In a partnership between Arizona Department of Air Quality (ADEQ) and HUE, the Teleworking project presents deliverables, key findings, and next steps for regional teleworking resources and policies for the Phoenix region. The Teleworking Tips documents and generic teleworking assessment are ready for use and can be immediately available for dissemination.
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Maricopa County Manufactured and RV Homes:Raising Awareness about Extreme Heat, Safety Tips, and Available Community Resources
The Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) Office of Epidemiology is responsible for monitoring health trends and behavioral risk factors among its 4.5 million residents. MCDPH has been conducting heat surveillance since 2006 and, over the years, has surveyed community members to understand how they cope with extreme heat during the summer. The purpose of this initiative, in addition to providing information, was to assess the community’s knowledge about heat exposure, heat illness, available community heat resources, the ways residents cope with the heat, and how COVID-19 has affected their household’s daily life.
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