This document is the pre-print version of: MAY 2019 Assessing population vulnerability towards summer energy poverty: Case studies of Madrid and London Carmen Sánchez-Guevara Sánchez, Miguel Núñez Peiró, Jonathon Taylor, Anna Mavrogianni & Francisco Javier Neila González published in: Energy and Buildings Please cite this document as: Sánchez-Guevara, C., Núñez Peiró, M., Taylor, J., Mavrogianni, A., & Neila González, J. (2019). Assessing population vulnerability towards summer energy poverty: Case studies of Madrid and London. Energy and Buildings, 190, 132-143. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.02.024 Link to the document: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.02.024 The following document has been archived according to the publisher’s default policies as a PRE-PRINT version on the repository of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. For more information, please visit: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php?la=en&fIDnum=|&mode=simple Assessing population vulnerability towards summer energy poverty: Case studies of Madrid and London C. Sánchez-Guevara Sánchez a, *; M. Núñez Peiró a; J. Taylor b; A. Mavrogianni b; F. J. Neila González a a School of Architecture (ETSAM), Technical University of Madrid (UPM). Avda. Juan de Herrera 4, 28040, Madrid, Spain b Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, Barlett School, University College London (UCL). Gower St, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom * Corresponding author. E-mail address:
[email protected] (M. Núñez Peiró) Abstract Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and duration of hot weather and its associated adverse health effects. In dense urban areas, these phenomena will be exacerbated by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect and indoor overheating.