IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v14y2022i19p12539-d931463.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Is PET an Adequate Index to Determine Human Thermal Comfort in Mexico City?

Author

Listed:
  • Monica Ballinas

    (Laboratorio de Entornos Sostenibles-Centro de Investigaciones en Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Paisaje, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico)

  • Sara Ivonne Morales-Santiago

    (Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 09230, Mexico)

  • Victor L. Barradas

    (Laboratorio de Interacción Planta-Atmósfera, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico)

  • Adriana Lira

    (Laboratorio de Entornos Sostenibles-Centro de Investigaciones en Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Paisaje, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico)

  • Gerardo Oliva-Salinas

    (Laboratorio de Entornos Sostenibles-Centro de Investigaciones en Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Paisaje, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico)

Abstract

The urban heat island (UHI) is mostly due to urbanization. This phenomenon in concert with the high temperatures caused by global climate change may profoundly affect human thermal comfort, which can influence human productivity and morbidity especially in spring/summer period. The main objective of this investigation was to determine changes in degree of thermal comfort of Mexico City’s inhabitants and compare it with the physiological equivalent temperature (PET) to evaluate whether PET and its categorization are adequate to be applied in Mexico City. A series of microclimatological measurements to estimate PET were made at four sites including the city’s center. Concomitantly, a series of surveys of thermal perception were applied to 1300 passersby. The results show that PET has increased from 1990 to 2020 from 0.1208 °C/year to 0.1498 °C/year in the study sites, in addition to overestimating the degree of thermal comfort of people according to the stablished categories or classes. It is concluded that it is necessary to adjust thermal stress categories. Knowing the percentages of people without thermal comfort will lead us to determine different ranges in environmental parameters to define an acceptable environment for most people.

Suggested Citation

  • Monica Ballinas & Sara Ivonne Morales-Santiago & Victor L. Barradas & Adriana Lira & Gerardo Oliva-Salinas, 2022. "Is PET an Adequate Index to Determine Human Thermal Comfort in Mexico City?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(19), pages 1-11, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:19:p:12539-:d:931463
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/19/12539/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/19/12539/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Helia Costa & Graham Floater & Hans Hooyberghs & Stijn Verbeke & Koen De Ridder, 2016. "Climate change, heat stress and labour productivity: A cost methodology for city economies," GRI Working Papers 248, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Karima Boussaidi & Djamila Djaghrouri & Moussadek Benabbas & Hasim Altan, 2023. "Assessment of Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Urban Public Space, during the Hottest Period in Annaba City, Algeria," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(15), pages 1-27, July.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Frank Vöhringer & Marc Vielle & Philippe Thalmann & Anita Frehner & Wolfgang Knoke & Dario Stocker & Boris Thurm, 2019. "Costs And Benefits Of Climate Change In Switzerland," Climate Change Economics (CCE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 10(02), pages 1-34, May.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:19:p:12539-:d:931463. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.