Urban climatology and environmental justice frequently share the same research site: the city. However, they study urban areas in distinct ways. Urban climatology has contributed to a better understanding of the urban boundary and canopy layer climates by embracing a broader and deeper investigation of the atmospheric and climatic specificities of the cities. Environmental justice has contributed a better understanding of how the poor and people of color are disproportionally affected by environmental problems. I argue here that we need both fields to fully understand urban climates because they are shaped both by legacies of colonialism, and race, gender, and class, and by the particularities of urban energy budgets and the variation in intra-urban air quality and thermal-hygrometric characteristics they drive. Critical physical geography can provide important analytical, theoretical, and methodological tools to help urban climatologists and environmental justice scholars work together toward the goal of social and environmental transformation.

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呼吁批判性城市气候学：批判性自然地理学的教训

城市气候学和环境正义经常共享同一个研究地点：城市。然而，他们以不同的方式研究城市地区。城市气候学通过对城市的大气和气候特性进行更广泛和更深入的调查，有助于更好地了解城市边界和冠层气候。环境正义有助于更好地了解穷人和有色人种如何受到环境问题的不成比例的影响。我在此主张，我们需要这两个领域来充分了解城市气候，因为它们既受到殖民主义遗留问题、种族、性别和阶级的影响，也受到城市能源预算的特殊性以及城市内部空气质量和热力的变化的影响。 -他们驱动的湿度特性。