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03 — Do the most vulnerable residents at risk have less room to green?

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The finding under test (AIDA): in Logroño, the most socially vulnerable residents at pluvial flood risk have less land that could be greened near their homes than the least vulnerable.

For every map with the current green cover (3 climates × 7 return periods) and both risks (well-being, mobility), among the residents at risk:

  1. resident-weighted mean share of land that could be greened within 100 m, most vulnerable fifth (Q5) against least vulnerable fifth (Q1);

  2. a one-sided permutation test (buildings shuffled between Q1 and Q5, 10,000 times) of “Q5 has less”;

  3. the same at 50 m and 200 m, and with the other land covers, as robustness;

  4. a cross-check against the analysis release, which computed the same measure for the planned scenario with ponds from its own snapshot of the Cadastre.

Decision rule, fixed before running: the finding holds if Q5 has less land that could be greened than Q1 in every current-cover comparison at 100 m, and no comparison shows significantly more (p < 0.05 in the other direction). Many comparisons are made and they are not independent, so an isolated small p-value is not read as evidence.

climate  rp  risk  residents_q1  residents_q5  mean_share_q1  mean_share_q5  p_q5_less  p_q5_more
 CC_Q50   2 PFRWB      6118.803      2461.942          0.189          0.055        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50   2 PFRMA      9319.513      4432.994          0.192          0.045        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50   5 PFRWB      7554.706      2955.211          0.195          0.056        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50   5 PFRMA     11154.467      5087.823          0.186          0.045        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50  10 PFRWB      7848.324      3008.609          0.192          0.055        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50  10 PFRMA     11644.268      5506.585          0.181          0.042        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50  25 PFRWB      8765.185      3733.093          0.190          0.046        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50  25 PFRMA     12670.360      5872.460          0.173          0.039        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50  50 PFRWB      9049.899      3733.093          0.192          0.046        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50  50 PFRMA     12946.087      5887.253          0.174          0.039        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50 100 PFRWB      9301.528      3816.078          0.187          0.045        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50 100 PFRMA     13186.019      5951.379          0.174          0.039        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50 200 PFRWB      9323.835      3858.342          0.187          0.045        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q50 200 PFRMA     13256.754      6047.568          0.173          0.038        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90   2 PFRWB      7038.883      2566.710          0.186          0.057        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90   2 PFRMA     10120.010      4543.288          0.195          0.047        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90   5 PFRWB      7639.320      3008.609          0.194          0.055        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90   5 PFRMA     11246.360      5506.585          0.185          0.042        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90  10 PFRWB      8064.492      3486.146          0.195          0.049        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90  10 PFRMA     11872.946      5540.727          0.181          0.041        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90  25 PFRWB      9049.899      3733.093          0.192          0.046        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90  25 PFRMA     12946.087      5887.253          0.174          0.039        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90  50 PFRWB      9301.528      3816.078          0.187          0.045        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90  50 PFRMA     13232.241      5951.379          0.173          0.039        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90 100 PFRWB      9438.684      3901.302          0.186          0.044        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90 100 PFRMA     13256.754      6047.568          0.173          0.038        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90 200 PFRWB      9899.978      3906.562          0.185          0.044        0.0        1.0
 CC_Q90 200 PFRMA     13596.719      6050.198          0.172          0.038        0.0        1.0
present   2 PFRWB      5664.806      2375.818          0.173          0.047        0.0        1.0
present   2 PFRMA      8594.264      4341.610          0.189          0.041        0.0        1.0
present   5 PFRWB      7440.555      2746.470          0.196          0.057        0.0        1.0
present   5 PFRMA     10830.012      4789.906          0.190          0.047        0.0        1.0
present  10 PFRWB      7639.320      3008.609          0.194          0.055        0.0        1.0
present  10 PFRMA     11246.360      5487.806          0.185          0.042        0.0        1.0
present  25 PFRWB      8064.492      3436.342          0.195          0.050        0.0        1.0
present  25 PFRMA     11823.936      5506.585          0.181          0.042        0.0        1.0
present  50 PFRWB      8785.032      3733.093          0.190          0.046        0.0        1.0
present  50 PFRMA     12690.207      5872.460          0.173          0.039        0.0        1.0
present 100 PFRWB      9049.899      3733.093          0.192          0.046        0.0        1.0
present 100 PFRMA     12946.087      5887.253          0.174          0.039        0.0        1.0
present 200 PFRWB      9301.528      3816.078          0.187          0.045        0.0        1.0
present 200 PFRMA     13186.019      5945.243          0.174          0.039        0.0        1.0

Robustness: radius and land cover

     land_cover  radius_m  comparisons  q5_less  significant_less  significant_more  mean_share_q1  mean_share_q5
       Allgreen        50           40       40                40                 0          0.127          0.030
       Allgreen       100           40       40                40                 0          0.187          0.044
       Allgreen       200           40       40                40                 0          0.256          0.058
       Baseline        50           42       42                42                 0          0.131          0.030
       Baseline       100           42       42                42                 0          0.185          0.045
       Baseline       200           42       42                42                 0          0.248          0.060
     NBSplanned        50           40       40                40                 0          0.131          0.030
     NBSplanned       100           40       40                40                 0          0.184          0.045
     NBSplanned       200           40       40                40                 0          0.248          0.060
NBSplanned_plus        50           42       42                42                 0          0.132          0.030
NBSplanned_plus       100           42       42                42                 0          0.185          0.045
NBSplanned_plus       200           42       42                42                 0          0.248          0.060

Cross-check against the analysis release (planned scenario with ponds, 100 m)

The release’s notebook 06 measured the same share from its own copy of the Cadastre, with at-risk sets from the counts variant; the at-risk sets are the same, so the means differ only through Cadastre updates between the two downloads.

40 comparisons; largest absolute difference 0.0000

Context, not part of the finding: does room to green predict who greening takes out of risk?

Within each fifth, residents at risk with the current green cover are split into those the all-green scenario takes out of risk (neither risk index above zero) and those who remain; the resident-weighted mean share at 100 m of the two sets is compared. If more room to green went with leaving risk, the taken-out set would have more in most cases.

       cases  taken_out_has_more  share_taken_out  share_remaining
group                                                             
1         20                   0            0.144            0.188
5         20                   9            0.063            0.040

Does the finding hold?

{'aida': 'In Logroño, the most socially vulnerable residents at pluvial flood risk have less land that could be greened near their homes than the least vulnerable.', 'comparisons_current_cover_100m': 42, 'q5_less_in': 42, 'significant_q5_less_p_lt_0.05': 42, 'significant_q5_more_p_lt_0.05': 0, 'mean_share_q1_range': [0.17218577632828036, 0.19580073516944715], 'mean_share_q5_range': [0.03798285840831739, 0.05745331553164259], 'all_comparisons_all_radii_all_covers': 492, 'q5_less_in_all': 492, 'buildings_matched_in_cadastre': 4540, 'crosscheck_max_abs_diff': 9.020562075079397e-17, 'context_room_vs_taken_out': {'q1': {'cases': 20, 'taken_out_has_more': 0}, 'q5': {'cases': 20, 'taken_out_has_more': 9}}, 'holds': True}