Co-benefits from adaptation options include improving the live- ability of, and quality of life in, cities, reducing socioeconomic vulnerability and exposure to locally higher temperatures . Urban settings in the USA have disproportionately higher exposure to urban heat island effects in low-income and mi- nority neighbourhoods in US cities . Co-benefits from adaptation responses in the urban landscape can reduce socioeconomic vulnerabilities and exposure to higher temperatures . Evaluation of adaptation efforts to reduce crime rates that have been associated with temperature are limited. In Los Angeles, a link has been inferred between violence and older buildings that may lack air con- ditioning . By contrast, access to air conditioning did not appear to lessen crime rates in Mexico .
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