Visualizations of mosquito risk: A political ecology approach to understanding the territorialization of hazard control

vonHedemann, Nicolena; Butterworth, Melinda K.; Robbins, Paul; Morin, Cory W.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.03.001

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“…Landscape ecology provides a conceptual framework to integrate multiple hazards and vulnerability by addressing their inherent spatial complexity, thus obtaining risk maps with a quantitative approach. Risk assessment can be substantially improved by the inclusion of spatial analyses of the data in a Geographic Information System (GIS) (Di Salvo et al., 2018; Liu et al., 2019; Poggio and Vrščaj, 2009), which also represents an advantage to communicate results, discuss the social perception of environmental hazards and plan management actions (Lahr and Kooistra, 2010; vonHedemann et al., 2015).…”

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An interdisciplinary approach to assess human health risk in an urban environment: A case study in temperate Argentina

Morandeira

Castesana

Cardo

et al. 2019

Heliyon

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Unplanned urbanization increases the exposure of people to environmental hazards. Within a landscape ecology framework, this study is a diagnosis of human health risk in San Martín, an urban district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Risk was estimated by combining four hazard indexes (water and air pollution, and mosquito and rodent infestation) and a vulnerability index. Each index was obtained by integrating environmental and socio-demographic layers in a Geographic Information System. Spatial autocorrelation was assessed for each hazard, vulnerability and risk indexes using Moran's tests. Also, spatial associations between pairs of variables were addressed by means of Geographically Weighted Regressions. The robustness of hazard and vulnerability indexes was checked by a sensitivity analysis. In General San Martín district, 83.3% of the population is exposed to relatively high levels of at least one hazard; 7.4% is exposed to relatively high levels of all hazards (11.5% of the total area) and only 16.7% lives in areas of relatively low levels of all hazards (15.4% of the total area). Areas where hazard intensity was relatively high corresponded to those areas where the most vulnerable population lives, enhancing human health risk. The models for hazards and vulnerability were reasonably robust to changes in the weights of the variables considered. Our results highlight the spatially heterogeneous nature of human health risk in an urban landscape, and reveal the location of critical risk hotspots where reduction or mitigation actions should be focused.

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An interdisciplinary approach to assess human health risk in an urban environment: A case study in temperate Argentina

Morandeira

Castesana

Cardo

et al. 2019

Heliyon

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“…The ECDs derived from Earth observation images have been used to assess the risks associated with different climate-related diseases (49,50,52,(64)(65)(66)(67)(68)(69). The possibility of human infection depends on a series of risks: the risk that the relevant vectors are present in the environment; the risk that those vectors are infected with a pathogen; the risk that human populations are exposed to those infected vectors; and the risk of disease transmission.…”

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Using Earth observation images to inform risk assessment and mapping of climate change-related infectious diseases

Kotchi¹,

Bouchard²,

Ludwig³

et al. 2019

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The number of human cases of several climate-related infectious diseases, including tick-and mosquito-borne diseases, has increased in Canada and other parts of the world since the end of the last century. Predicting and mapping the risks associated with these diseases using environmental and climatic determinants derived from satellite images is an emerging method that can support research, surveillance, prevention and control activities and help to better assess the impacts of climate change in Canada. Earth observation images can be used to systematically monitor changes in the Earth's surface and atmosphere at different scales of time and space. These images can inform estimation and monitoring of environmental and climatic determinants, and thus disease prediction and risk mapping. The current array of Earth observation satellites provides access to a large quantity and variety of data. These data have different characteristics in terms of spatial, temporal and thematic precision and resolution. The objectives of this overview are to describe how Earth observation images may inform risk assessment and mapping of tick-borne and mosquito-borne diseases in Canada, their potential benefits and limitations, the implications and next steps.

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“…Over recent decades, conceptual approaches to risk have undergone considerable paradigm shifts from environmentally deterministic, hazard-centric approaches [1] to political economy and political ecology perspectives [2][3][4], and finally to holistic concepts that integrate and connect social, economic, political, environmental and governance-related drivers of disaster risk [1,[5][6][7]. Despite the tendency of ecological risk for complexity and diversification, risk is understood as the probability that ecosystems are affected by adverse impacts resulting from anthropogenic activities and unavoidable natural events and are defined as a product of hazard and vulnerability [8][9][10][11][12].…”

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Ecological risk assessment of geohazards in Natural World Heritage Sites: an empirical analysis of Bogda, Tianshan

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Ecological risk assessment plays an important role in avoiding disasters and reducing losses. Natural world heritage site is the most precious natural assets on earth, yet few studies have assessed ecological risks from the perspective of world heritage conservation and management. A methodology for considering ecological threats and vulnerabilities and focusing on heritage value was introduced and discussed for the Bogda component of the Xinjiang Tianshan Natural World Heritage Site. Three important results are presented. (1) Criteria layers and ecological risk showed obvious spatial heterogeneity. Extremely high-risk and high-risk areas, accounting for 13.60% and 32.56%, respectively, were mainly gathered at Tianchi Lake and Bogda Glacier, whereas the extremely low-risk and low-risk areas, covering 1.33% and 17.51% of the site,were mainly distributed to the north and scattered around in the southwest montane region. (2) The level of risk was positively correlated with the type of risk, and as the level of risk increases, the types of risk increase. Only two risk types were observed in the extremely low-risk areas, whereas six risk types were observed in the high-risk areas and eight risk types were observed in the extremely high-risk areas. (3) From the perspective of risk probability and ecological damage, four risk management categories were proposed, and correlative strategies were proposed to reduce the possibility of ecological risk and to sustain or enhance heritage value.

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Visualizations of mosquito risk: A political ecology approach to understanding the territorialization of hazard control

Cited by 13 publications

References 36 publications

An interdisciplinary approach to assess human health risk in an urban environment: A case study in temperate Argentina

An interdisciplinary approach to assess human health risk in an urban environment: A case study in temperate Argentina

Using Earth observation images to inform risk assessment and mapping of climate change-related infectious diseases

Ecological risk assessment of geohazards in Natural World Heritage Sites: an empirical analysis of Bogda, Tianshan

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