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DOI | 10.1007/s10584-018-2194-2 |
Changing urban risk: 140 years of climatic hazards in New York City | |
Depietri, Yaella1; McPhearson, Timon1,2,3 | |
2018-05-01 | |
发表期刊 | CLIMATIC CHANGE
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ISSN | 0165-0009 |
EISSN | 1573-1480 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 148页码:95-108 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA; Sweden |
英文摘要 | Weather-related disasters are on the rise. The causes, whether driven by climate change or changes in exposure and vulnerability of social-ecological-technological systems are still uncertain. Here, we address this issue with an in-depth study of the variability in climate-related extreme events which have impacted New York City (NYC) over the past 140 years. NYC has not historically been viewed as a particularly hazard prone region. However, this perspective is changing, particularly after the disastrous consequences of Hurricane Sandy (2012). We constructed a systematic database of impactful climatic events and assessed multi-sector impacts. Results indicate that hazards have systematically affected the city, with heat waves as the deadliest events and hurricanes as the costliest. We analyzed climatic hazard trends focusing on heat waves and flooding only, since data for these events are available over the full-time frame of the study. We then examined impacts of the most severe of these two hazards using data from The New York Times. Our analyses show that flooding and heat wave extreme events have regularly affected the city over its history with a trend toward increasing mean number of hazards per decade. We highlight a trend of decreased mortality due to heat waves over time and increase in the impacts of heavy precipitation, primarily related to the expansion of the transportation system and potentially to climate change over this time period. We suggest that, especially in urban areas of developed countries such as NYC, changes in built up infrastructure may be the primary drivers of risk to natural hazards. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000431788500007 |
WOS关键词 | DISASTER ; IMPACTS ; LOSSES ; EVENTS ; PANEL |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/30159 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.New Sch, Urban Syst Lab, 79 Fifth Ave,16th Fl, New York, NY 10003 USA; 2.Cary Inst Ecosyst Studies, Millbrook, NY 12545 USA; 3.Stockholm Univ, Stockholm Resilience Ctr, Stockholm, Sweden |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Depietri, Yaella,McPhearson, Timon. Changing urban risk: 140 years of climatic hazards in New York City[J]. CLIMATIC CHANGE,2018,148:95-108. |
APA | Depietri, Yaella,&McPhearson, Timon.(2018).Changing urban risk: 140 years of climatic hazards in New York City.CLIMATIC CHANGE,148,95-108. |
MLA | Depietri, Yaella,et al."Changing urban risk: 140 years of climatic hazards in New York City".CLIMATIC CHANGE 148(2018):95-108. |
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