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| Titel |
Social and economic factors of the natural risk increasing: estimation of the Russian regions |
| VerfasserIn |
E. Petrova |
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| ISSN |
1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ; 4, no. 2 ; Nr. 4, no. 2 (2004-04-16), S.243-248 |
| Datensatznummer |
250001581
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-4-243-2004.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| This study is an attempt to assess quantitatively social and economic factors that determine
vulnerability of Russian regions to natural risk, to trace the space differences of the
considered factors, and to group the regions by their similarity. In order to indicate the
regional differences in social and economic development, equipment condition, dangerous
substances accumulation, and social trouble four the most suitable parameters were estimated,
including the per capita production of Gross Regional Product (GRP), capital consumption,
volume of total toxic waste, and crime rate. Increase of the first parameter causes
vulnerability reducing, the increase of the last three causes its increasing. Using
multidimensional cluster analysis five types of regions were found for Russia according
to similarity of the considered parameters. These types are characterized with higher value
of a single (rarely two) chosen parameter, which seems to be sufficient enough to affect
natural risks increasing in these regions in near future. Only few regions belonging to the
fifth type proved to have rather high value of GRP and relatively low values of the other
parameters. The negative correlation was found between a number of natural disasters (ND)
and the per capita GRP in case when some parameters reached anomalously high value. The
distinctions between regions by prevailing different parameters, which result in natural
risk increasing, help risk management to find directions where to focus on. |
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