SOCIAL VULNERABILITY IN BUCHAREST: AN EXPLORATORY SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS APPROACH
AL. GAVRIȘ1
1The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Address: Bd. Dorobanți No. 13-15, Room 2705, email: alexandru.gavris@rei.ase.ro
ABSTRACT. – Social Vulnerability in Bucharest: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis Approach. This study examines the social vulnerability of Bucharest through a spatial exploratory analysis. Changes from the past 20 years at urban development in Romania, and particular in Bucharest, are reflected into an increasing social vulnerability. The profile is constructed by numerous social processes to which population has been faced it to. The aging of population, increasing urban density, lower wages, and school graduated, living conditions are just a few of the indicators showing social vulnerability in Bucharest. Data provided by the National Institute of Statistics, CPUMB are used to explore the existence of spatial clusters significant as social vulnerability areas. Methodology framework is constructed on the basis of spatial analysis by analyzing the results of SoV index. The added value to the scientific literature resides in a different approach of calculation – score Hull, instead of the additive model proposed by Cutter et al. (2003). The result is a step forward to the mapping of vulnerability in the city of Bucharest, which should provide solutions and possible decisions.
Keywords: social vulnerability, ESDA methodology, SoV index, Bucharest.