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Linking regional economic impacts of temperature-related disasters to underlying climatic hazards

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      IOP Publishing, 2024.
    • الموضوع:
      2024
    • Collection:
      LCC:Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
      LCC:Environmental sciences
      LCC:Science
      LCC:Physics
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Temperature-induced disasters lead to major human and economic damage, but the relationship between their climatic drivers and impacts is difficult to quantify. In part, this is due to a lack of data with suitable resolution, scale and coverage on impacts and disaster occurrence. Here, we address this gap using new datasets on subnational sector-disaggregated economic productivity and geo-coded disaster locations to quantify the role of climatic hazards on economic impacts of temperature-induced disasters at a subnational scale. Using a regression-based approach, we find that the regional economic impacts of heat-related disasters are most strongly linked to the daily maximum temperature (TXx) index. This effect is largest in the agricultural sector (6.37% regional growth rate reduction per standard deviation increase in TXx anomaly), being almost twice as strong as in the manufacturing sector (3.98%), service sector (3.64%), and whole economy (3.64%). We also highlight the role of compound climatic hazards in worsening impacts, showing that in the agriculture sector, compound hot-and-dry conditions amplify the impacts of heat-related disasters on growth rates by a factor of two. In contrast, in the service and manufacturing sectors, stronger impacts are found to be associated with compound hot and wet conditions. These findings present a first step in understanding the relationship between temperature-related hazards and regional economic impacts using a multi-event database, and highlight the need for further research to better understand the complex mechanisms including compound effects underlying these impacts across sectors.
    • File Description:
      electronic resource
    • ISSN:
      1748-9326
    • Relation:
      https://doaj.org/toc/1748-9326
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1088/1748-9326/ad89de
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsdoj.00cd76011fec4d9dacaa7df59ca364dc