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- Title
Compound climate-pollution extremes in Santiago de Chile.
- Authors
Feron, Sarah; Cordero, Raúl R.; Damiani, Alessandro; Oyola, Pedro; Ansari, Tabish; Pedemonte, Juan C.; Wang, Chenghao; Ouyang, Zutao; Gallo, Valentina
- Abstract
Cities in the global south face dire climate impacts. It is in socioeconomically marginalized urban communities of the global south that the effects of climate change are felt most deeply. Santiago de Chile, a major mid-latitude Andean city of 7.7 million inhabitants, is already undergoing the so-called "climate penalty" as rising temperatures worsen the effects of endemic ground-level ozone pollution. As many cities in the global south, Santiago is highly segregated along socioeconomic lines, which offers an opportunity for studying the effects of concurrent heatwaves and ozone episodes on distinct zones of affluence and deprivation. Here, we combine existing datasets of social indicators and climate-sensitive health risks with weather and air quality observations to study the response to compound heat-ozone extremes of different socioeconomic strata. Attributable to spatial variations in the ground-level ozone burden (heavier for wealthy communities), we found that the mortality response to extreme heat (and the associated further ozone pollution) is stronger in affluent dwellers, regardless of comorbidities and lack of access to health care affecting disadvantaged population. These unexpected findings underline the need of a site-specific hazard assessment and a community-based risk management.
- Subjects
SANTIAGO (Chile); HEAT waves (Meteorology); CITIES &; towns; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of weather; COMMUNITIES; DEVELOPING countries; HEALTH services accessibility
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2023, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41598-023-33890-w