Artigo de periodico

Heat stress vulnerability and risk at the (super) local scale in six Brazilian capitals (2019)

• Authors:
  • Lapola, David M
  • Braga, Diego R
  • Di Giulio, Gabriela Marques
  • Torres, Roger R
  • Vasconcellos, Maria da Penha Costa
• USP affiliated authors: GIULIO, GABRIELA MARQUES DI - FSP ; VASCONCELLOS, MARIA DA PENHA COSTA - FSP
• Unidade: FSP
• DOI: 10.1007/s10584-019-02459-w
• Subjects: MUDANÇA CLIMÁTICA; CIDADES; VULNERABILIDADE; ESPAÇO URBANO; CALOR; ADAPTAÇÃO AMBIENTAL
• Language: Inglês
• Abstract: Brazilian cities host 86% of the country’s population and have been more intensely hit byrising temperatures than the average of cities across the world over the last century.Nevertheless, assessments of the vulnerability of Brazilian urban dwellers to urban heatislands (UHI) are scarce. In this study, we take advantage of the availability of high-resolution data to calculate the heat stress vulnerability and risk indexes (HSVIandHSRI,respectively) for people inhabiting six Brazilian metropolitan areas—Manaus, Natal,Vitória, São Paulo, Curitiba, and Porto Alegre. The indexes are calculated by mathemat-ically relating indicators of exposure (distribution of >65-year-old elderly people),sensitivity/adaptive capacity (human development index,HDI), and hazard (surfacetemperature). The resultingHSVImaps reflect the socioeconomic (HDI) differencesfound among the studied cities, with the most vulnerable people located in the poorestneighborhoods in Manaus (0.720) and Natal (0.733), distributed among lower- and mid-class zones in São Paulo (0.794) and Vitória (0.772), or invariably located in the wealthyzones of Curitiba (0.783) and Porto Alegre (0.762). Two distinct patterns are identifiedfor theHSRI: in São Paulo, Vitória, Curitiba, and Porto Alegre, high and very high risksare found in the wealthy zones of the cities, whereas in Natal and Manaus, high and veryhigh risks are encountered in the poorly developed city zones, a result that was stronglydriven by the UHI pattern. Better communication of heat stress risk and the improvementof city greenness should be the focus of near-term adaptation strategies for the mappedvulnerable population
• Imprenta:
  • Publisher place: Dordrecht-Holland
  • Date published: 2019
• Source:
  • Título: Climatic Change
  • ISSN: 0165-0009
  • Volume/Número/Paginação/Ano: v.154, p. 477-492, 2019

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  LAPOLA, David M et al. Heat stress vulnerability and risk at the (super) local scale in six Brazilian capitals. Climatic Change, v. 154, p. 477-492, 2019Tradução . . Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02459-w. Acesso em: 27 dez. 2025.

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  Lapola, D. M., Braga, D. R., Di Giulio, G. M., Torres, R. R., & Vasconcellos, M. da P. C. (2019). Heat stress vulnerability and risk at the (super) local scale in six Brazilian capitals. Climatic Change, 154, 477-492. doi:10.1007/s10584-019-02459-w

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  Lapola DM, Braga DR, Di Giulio GM, Torres RR, Vasconcellos M da PC. Heat stress vulnerability and risk at the (super) local scale in six Brazilian capitals [Internet]. Climatic Change. 2019 ;154 477-492.[citado 2025 dez. 27 ] Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02459-w

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  Lapola DM, Braga DR, Di Giulio GM, Torres RR, Vasconcellos M da PC. Heat stress vulnerability and risk at the (super) local scale in six Brazilian capitals [Internet]. Climatic Change. 2019 ;154 477-492.[citado 2025 dez. 27 ] Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02459-w

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