INFLUENCE OF FOREST FIRE ON MORTALITY RATES OF POPULATION: A CASE STUDY OF TVER OBLAST
https://doi.org/10.1134/S2587556618040179
Abstract
The case study of Tver oblast of the Russian Federation shows the possibility of obtaining a quantitative estimation of premature mortality caused by direct and delayed exposure to smoke from forest fires. It is based on an analysis of the mortality of the population, data on the duration of exposure to toxic substances contained in smoke from forest fires, and their concentrations. The materials of the space survey for smoke areas, the volumes of pyrolysis products released into the environment and statistical data on the death rate of the population for the period from 2007 to 2015 are analyzed. The dependence between the mortality of the population arising from diseases of the organs of the circulatory and respiratory systems and fires in forest territories has been revealed. Increased mortality is recorded both in years with the observed smoke caused by forest fires, and the following year, which may be due to direct and delayed exposure to smoke. It is determined that the increase in mortality from the pathology of the functioning of the circulatory system occurs directly during the period of forest fires, and from the respiratory disease in the following year.
About the Authors
S. N. Zharinov
Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Russian Federation
Moscow.
Russian Federation
Moscow.
E. I. Golubeva
Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Russian Federation
Moscow.
Russian Federation
Moscow.
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- Forest fires increased mortality in the Tver region in 2010 and 2014.
- The fires increased mortality from the pathology of circulatory system, while the delayed effects of smoke resulted in increased number of deaths from the respiratory diseases in the following year.
- In the year of the fire exposure, mortality increased by 1–4%, and in the subsequent year by 1%.
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Zharinov S.N., Golubeva E.I. INFLUENCE OF FOREST FIRE ON MORTALITY RATES OF POPULATION: A CASE STUDY OF TVER OBLAST. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2018;(4):96-103. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.1134/S2587556618040179
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