Protecting Urban Livelihoods from Climate Change – Building Heat Stress Resilience amongst Da Nang City’s most Vulnerable Workers

Organization: COHED

Lead Researchers: Sarah Opitz-Stapleton; Lea Sabbag; Tran Van Giai Phong; Ngo Thi Le Mai; Kate Hawley

Year: 2013-2016

The overarching goal of this project was to protect the livelihoods of low-income workers as climate change leads to increased temperatures in Da Nang city. Specifically, the project aspired to increase the resilience of vulnerable urban workers to heat stress and thereby contribute to the resilience of the city as a whole.