TRUE – Ecocentric Territory Risk Units: circulatory and respiratory diseases aggravation in Porto

Authors

  • Maria Augusta Fernández Moreno
  • Ana Monteiro
  • Vânia Carvalho
  • Glória Gonçalves

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-7723_21_13

Keywords:

Heat and cold waves, risk, territory, respiratory circulatory diseases, temperature, climate.

Abstract

This paper contributes to understand the aggravation of circulatory and respiratory diseases from an ecocentric point of view through a territorial approach. Instead of considering natural phenomena as external to the territory as in conventional natural risk approach, the integrated analysis of social and environmental - in this case thermal - factors, in the very unit of analysis, reveals possible risk scenarios under which aggravation may occur.

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Published

2014-08-26

Issue

No. 21 (2014): Risk territories: processes, vulnerabilities and security

Section

Articles

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