Too Hot to Work: Heat Impacts on Home-Based Workers and Street Vendors in Bangkok
This datasheet draws on a 2025 HomeNet Thailand/WIEGO study involving surveys, interviews, and focus groups with more than a thousand informal workers in Bangkok, Thailand. It highlights the city’s growing vulnerability to extreme heat, intensified by rapid urbanization and the urban heat island effect. The findings reveal how workers in informal employment, especially street vendors and home-based workers, who are essential to Bangkok’s economy, face disproportionate risks that remain largely unaddressed in current climate adaptation policies, which tend to focus on agriculture. By presenting evidence from workers’ lived experiences, this datasheet offers insights to support more inclusive, targeted policies that protect livelihoods and strengthen the city’s resilience to climate change.
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