Heat Wave Not Only Contributes The Impact to The Health But Also to The Economy, How Come?

Another study by (Xia & and friends, 2018) entitle Assessment of the economic impacts of heat waves: A case study of Nanjing, China. The study mentioned that the heat wave that happened in 2013 years ago gave many impacts to many sectors particularly for economy sector.

The economic sector can be impacted by heat through the loss of working days and productivity. Workers in Nanjing lost 8 hours a day and 250 days in 2013. In fact, manufacturing that worked indoor had lost 12% of working hours for 2 weeks.  Meanwhile, outdoor worker lost 6 hours daily. These losses were driving them in to the decrease of the economy because if they had lost the working hours they instantly would lose productivity. The data shows Nanjing lost about 27.49 billion Yuan in 2013, mainly from the manufacturing sector was about 63.1% or 17.34% billion Yuan. Following the service sector lost 14.3%, for construction 10.7 %, for agriculture 7.6 %, energy supply 3.3 %, and for mining 0.9%.

According to the impact found, it can still affect to people's life up to now particularly in economy sector. It can be concluded that the heat wave is a high detriment disaster. The heat wave not only can impact the health sector but also to the economy sector.

Through these found can be hoped to us to be ready and realize the impact of the heat wave, and also it is hoped it can be the motivation to gain a lot of endeavors to cope the heat wave with the innovation one.