Väder, välstånd och välbefinnande

The document examines how climate-driven extreme weather events, such as floods and droughts, create cascading failures in essential services that disproportionately affect vulnerable populations in Halmstad, Sweden. It identifies key drivers of social vulnerability—including age, income, and disability—and argues that municipalities should integrate social perspectives into their risk and vulnerability analyses of critical infrastructure to improve crisis preparedness.

• Social vulnerability in Halmstad is shaped by nine primary factors: age, language, illness and disability, education level, single-parent households, vehicle ownership, housing, income, and unemployment.
• Certain professional roles increase exposure to risks and cascading effects; this includes operational staff repairing power and phone lines, as well as healthcare and home care workers who may face high risks due to a sense of duty to reach patients during storms.
• Dependence on infrastructure can create new vulnerable groups based on the level of redundancy; for example, rural households may be less vulnerable to municipal water outages if they have private wells, whereas urban apartment dwellers lack alternative water sources.
• Cascading effects can occur between different social groups, as seen during the Covid-19 pandemic where school closures increased the burden on single parents, some of whom work in home care, potentially disrupting healthcare services for those dependent on that care.
• Unintentional negative responses in crisis management can exacerbate social inequalities, such as when crisis communication relies on digital tools or specific languages that exclude those without technology or with language barriers.
• The authors recommend that municipalities use 'Impact chains' (konsekvenskedjor) to visualize the links between weather events, disruptions in essential services, and social vulnerability to better design crisis preparedness.

APA

Englund, M., André, K., Barquet, K., & Segnestam, L. (2022). Väder, välstånd och välbefinnande. Stockholm Environment Institute. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/vader-valstand-valbefinnande-halmstad-sei2022.039.pdf

Chicago

Englund, Mathilda, Karin André, Karina Barquet, and Lisa Segnestam. Väder, välstånd och välbefinnande. Stockholm Environment Institute, 2022. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/vader-valstand-valbefinnande-halmstad-sei2022.039.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{englund2022vder, author = {Englund, Mathilda and André, Karin and Barquet, Karina and Segnestam, Lisa}, title = {{Väder, välstånd och välbefinnande}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2022}, month = oct, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/vader-valstand-valbefinnande-halmstad-sei2022.039.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }