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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.05.004
	Empirical evidence of declining global vulnerability to climate-related hazards
	Formetta G.; Feyen L.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	57
英文摘要	Death tolls and economic losses from natural hazards continue to rise in many parts of the world. With the aim to reduce future impacts from natural disasters it is crucial to understand the variability in space and time of the vulnerability of people and economic assets. In this paper we quantified the temporal dynamics of socio-economic vulnerability, expressed as fatalities over exposed population and losses over exposed GDP, to climate-related hazards between 1980 and 2016. Using a global, spatially explicit framework that integrates population and economic dynamics with one of the most complete natural disaster loss databases we quantified mortality and loss rates across income levels and analyzed their relationship with wealth. Results show a clear decreasing trend in both human and economic vulnerability, with global average mortality and economic loss rates that have dropped by 6.5 and nearly 5 times, respectively, to 1989 to 2007 from 1980-1989 to 2007-2016. We further show a clear negative relation between vulnerability and wealth, which is strongest at the lowest income levels. This has led to a convergence in vulnerability between higher and lower income countries. Yet, there is still a considerable climate hazard vulnerability gap between poorer and richer countries. © 2019 The Authors
英文关键词	climate related hazard vulnerability; Multi-hazard vulnerability
学科领域	climate change; economic conditions; empirical analysis; global perspective; mortality; natural disaster; natural hazard; vulnerability
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; economic conditions; empirical analysis; global perspective; mortality; natural disaster; natural hazard; vulnerability
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117043
作者单位	Fincons Group, Vimercate, Via Torri Bianche 10, Pal. Betulla, Vimercate (MB), 20871, Italy; European Commission, Joint European Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Formetta G.,Feyen L.. Empirical evidence of declining global vulnerability to climate-related hazards[J],2019,57.
APA	Formetta G.,&Feyen L..(2019).Empirical evidence of declining global vulnerability to climate-related hazards.Global Environmental change,57.
MLA	Formetta G.,et al."Empirical evidence of declining global vulnerability to climate-related hazards".Global Environmental change 57(2019).