Socio-economic and environmental vulnerability to heat-related phenomena in Bucharest metropolitan area
| Autor: | Monica Dumitraşcu, Cristina Dumitrică, Irena Mocanu, Carmen-Sofia Dragotă, Bianca Mitrică, Ines Grigorescu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Extreme climate
Hot Temperature Vulnerability index Climate Climate Change Vulnerability 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Biochemistry 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Vulnerability assessment Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Agricultural crops 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science Adaptive capacity Romania business.industry Environmental resource management Metropolitan area Droughts Geography Socioeconomic Factors Habitat business |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Research. 192:110268 |
| ISSN: | 0013-9351 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110268 |
| Popis: | In the recent years, the effects of extreme climate phenomena (mainly heat-related) on agricultural crops, infrastructure and human health have become increasingly severe as a result of their complex interactions with the particularities of the urban/rural habitat, as well as the social and economic factors. In Romania, heat-related phenomena (e.g. drought, heat waves) are affecting wide areas in the southern half of the territory where the study area (Bucharest Metropolitan Area) lies. The paper aims to develop a multi-criteria vulnerability assessment using both quantitative and qualitative methods. 23 indicators were selected and processed in order to assess various components of socio-economic and environmental vulnerability to heat-related phenomena using the statistical data available at local administrative units (LAU). The indicators were grouped into the three key components of vulnerability (potential exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity) on two dimensions (socio-economic and environmental) resulting two indexes: Socio-Economic Vulnerability Index (SEVI) and Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI). Finally, an integrated Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) (using Hull score, average 50 and standard deviation 14) was computed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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