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  • Environmental Health
  • Urban Planning
  • Statistical Modeling

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  • Populations face diverse environmental exposures impacting health.
  • Assessing cumulative environmental burden in complex settings is challenging.
  • Existing studies rarely adopt a global, data-driven approach.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and illustrate a composite environmental exposure index.
  • To assess the environmental burden on populations in a metropolitan area.
  • To utilize statistical factor and cluster analyses for a data-driven approach.

Main Methods:

  • Applied Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) to synthesize environmental indicators.
  • Used Hierarchical Clustering to create exposure-based census block groups (BGs).
  • Analyzed NO2 concentrations, noise, green space, industrial, polluted sites, and traffic proximity in Great Lyon.

Main Results:

  • MFA components explained significant variance (30%, 14%, 11%, 9%).
  • Clustering identified five distinct BG classes based on exposure profiles.
  • Classes ranged from unpopulated areas to high-exposure midtown urban BGs and industry-adjacent BGs.

Conclusions:

  • Statistical factor and cluster analyses offer a valuable, underutilized method for assessing cumulative environmental exposure.
  • The composite index can identify cumulative exposure "hot spots."
  • This approach supports prioritizing urban policies and comparing environmental burdens across regions.