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| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/ad89de |
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| Title (Primary) | Linking regional economic impacts of temperature-related disasters to underlying climatic hazards |
| Author | Mithal, V.; Sillmann, J.; Zscheischler, J.
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| Source Titel | Environmental Research Letters |
| Year | 2024 |
| Department | CER |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Page From | art. 124010 |
| Language | englisch |
| Topic | T5 Future Landscapes |
| Data and Software links | https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7573249 https://doi.org/10.7927/zz3b-8y61 |
| Keywords | climate extremes; compound events; climate impacts; natural disasters |
| Abstract | Temperature-induced disasters lead to major human and economic damage, but the relationship between their climatic drivers and impacts is difficult to quantify. In part, this is due to a lack of data with suitable resolution, scale and coverage on impacts and disaster occurrence. Here, we address this gap using new datasets on subnational sector-disaggregated economic productivity and geo-coded disaster locations to quantify the role of climatic hazards on economic impacts of temperature-induced disasters at a subnational scale. Using a regression-based approach, we find that the regional economic impacts of heat-related disasters are most strongly linked to the daily maximum temperature (TXx) index. This effect is largest in the agricultural sector (6.37% regional growth rate reduction per standard deviation increase in TXx anomaly), being almost twice as strong as in the manufacturing sector (3.98%), service sector (3.64%), and whole economy (3.64%). We also highlight the role of compound climatic hazards in worsening impacts, showing that in the agriculture sector, compound hot-and-dry conditions amplify the impacts of heat-related disasters on growth rates by a factor of two. In contrast, in the service and manufacturing sectors, stronger impacts are found to be associated with compound hot and wet conditions. These findings present a first step in understanding the relationship between temperature-related hazards and regional economic impacts using a multi-event database, and highlight the need for further research to better understand the complex mechanisms including compound effects underlying these impacts across sectors. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=29947 |
| Mithal, V., Sillmann, J., Zscheischler, J. (2024): Linking regional economic impacts of temperature-related disasters to underlying climatic hazards Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (12), art. 124010 10.1088/1748-9326/ad89de |
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