Solace: Rapid response for urban heat emergencies
SOLACE: Addressing extreme urban heatwaves
Extreme temperatures in historically milder cities, such as reaching 45C in London, are inevitable and will cause intense human suffering from heat stress, heatstroke, and even death. We need to plan now to avoid catastrophic consequences later. The goal of the SolACE (Solar Air-Conditioned Environment) project is to create a global suite of site-specific socio-technical solutions elicited by means of a set of challenge-style competitions. Our first step is to create a template for such a competition and pilot it in Cambridge, then use this to refine the template, share it openly, so that similar competitions can be run elsewhere.
If you are interested in this, please contact me at sk818@cam.ac.uk.
The ideas in this work were developed jointly with J. Prabhu and M. Fernandes at the Judge Business School.