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DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/ad376b |
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019) | |
Sikarwar, Ankit; Golaz, Valerie | |
发表日期 | 2024 |
ISSN | 1748-9326 |
起始页码 | 19 |
结束页码 | 4 |
卷号 | 19期号:4 |
英文摘要 | In the face of increasing global environmental uncertainties, sub-Saharan Africa stands as a highly vulnerable region with a massive population marked with poverty and inequalities. Moreover, different environmental risk factors can coexist simultaneously as multiple environmental burdens (MEBs); however, population exposure to MEB remains unexamined. Here, using open-access spatial data and critical thresholds, we quantify population exposure to four key environmental risk factors: hazardous fine particulate matter (PM2.5) levels, extreme temperature increase, prolonged severe droughts, and green deficit (scarcity of green trees). Further, we explore the concept of MEB, where these risk factors converge. We derive exposure for 2000 and 2019 at the pixel (1 km grid cell) level. We also check how population change, environmental change, and their interaction contribute to the total change in exposure. We found substantial changes in the population exposed from 2000 to 2019, i.e. an increase of similar to 460 million people to hazardous PM2.5 levels, similar to 16 million to extreme temperature increase, similar to 13 million to prolonged severe droughts, and similar to 246 million to green deficit. Population exposure to at least three of these four environmental risk factors (3EB) has increased by similar to 246 million. In this increase in exposure to 3EB, the contribution of environmental change is higher (48%), than that of interaction and population change (36% and 15%, respectively). Notably, there are striking disparities in population exposure, its change, and the contributing effects among countries and regions of sub-Saharan Africa. |
英文关键词 | multiple environmental burdens; population exposure; sub-Saharan Africa; climate change; air pollution |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS记录号 | WOS:001198888700001 |
来源期刊 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/289427 |
作者单位 | Aix-Marseille Universite; Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD) |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sikarwar, Ankit,Golaz, Valerie. Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)[J],2024,19(4). |
APA | Sikarwar, Ankit,&Golaz, Valerie.(2024).Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019).ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,19(4). |
MLA | Sikarwar, Ankit,et al."Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)".ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 19.4(2024). |
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