Urban Vulnerability Assessment for Pandemic Surveillance—The COVID-19 Case in Bogotá, Colombia
| Autor: | Jeisson Prieto, Elizabeth León, Rafael Malagón, Jonatan Piedra Gomez |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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vulnerability assessment
COVID-19 vulnerability index Vulnerability index spatial analysis 030231 tropical medicine Geography Planning and Development lcsh:TJ807-830 Vulnerability lcsh:Renewable energy sources Urban density Management Monitoring Policy and Law Urban area infectious diseases urban vulnerability pandemic 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Vulnerability assessment Urbanization Pandemic 030212 general & internal medicine Environmental planning lcsh:Environmental sciences lcsh:GE1-350 geography geography.geographical_feature_category Poverty Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants lcsh:TD194-195 |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 3402, p 3402 (2021) Sustainability; Volume 13; Issue 6; Pages: 3402 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | A pandemic devastates the lives of global citizens and causes significant economic, social, and political disruption. Evidence suggests that the likelihood of pandemics has increased over the past century because of increased global travel and integration, urbanization, and changes in land use with a profound affectation of society–nature metabolism. Further, evidence concerning the urban character of the pandemic has underlined the role of cities in disease transmission. An early assessment of the severity of infection and transmissibility can help quantify the pandemic potential and prioritize surveillance to control highly vulnerable urban areas in pandemics. In this paper, an Urban Vulnerability Assessment (UVA) methodology is proposed. UVA investigates various vulnerability factors related to pandemics to assess the vulnerability in urban areas. A vulnerability index is constructed by the aggregation of multiple vulnerability factors computed on each urban area (i.e., urban density, poverty index, informal labor, transmission routes). This methodology is useful in a-priori evaluation and development of policies and programs aimed at reducing disaster risk (DRR) at different scales (i.e., addressing urban vulnerability at national, regional, and provincial scales), under diverse scenarios of resources scarcity (i.e., short and long-term actions), and for different audiences (i.e., the general public, policy-makers, international organizations). The applicability of UVA is shown by the identification of high vulnerable areas based on publicly available data where surveillance should be prioritized in the COVID-19 pandemic in Bogotá, Colombia. |
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