Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerability at the Local Level: A Case Study on the Dniester River Basin (Moldova)

Table 4

Ranks of Moldova’s administrative-territorial units in the decreasing order of their sensitivity.

No.	ATU	Sensitivity
		Physiographical				Social-economic					Total rank
		Indicator’s rank^a			Intermediate rank	Indicator’s rank^b				Intermediate rank
		a1	a2	a3		b1	b2	b3	b4
(1)	Anenii Noi	15	9	11	10	3	11	22	9	10	7
(2)	Bălţi	14	21	1	12	2	5	19	1	2	10
(3)	Călăraşi	20	1	13	9	6	15	14	21	18	16
(4)	Căuşeni	8	12	20	16	22	8	7	3	9	18
(5)	Chişinău	18	18	2	15	4	4	18	2	3	5
(6)	Criuleni	4	17	6	6	8	3	15	12	6	6
(7)	Donduşeni	3	19	19	17	14	21	4	17	17	15
(8)	Drochia	1	14	10	4	9	13	12	13	11	3
(9)	Dubăsari	9	20	9	14	1	6	1	15	1	20
(10)	Făleşti	2	11	3	1	16	14	5	20	16	2
(11)	Floreşti	17	8	18	20	12	18	10	20	19	17
(12)	Ialoveni	22	2	7	8	10	7	13	8	8	9
(13)	Ocniţa	11	22	17	22	7	22	11	10	13	11
(14)	Orhei	21	6	16	18	5	17	21	19	20	14
(15)	Rezina	12	4	8	2	19	10	9	14	15	8
(16)	Rîşcani	6	10	12	7	13	16	6	16	14	4
(17)	Sîngerei	19	3	14	13	20	19	16	11	22	19
(18)	Soroca	7	13	4	3	11	12	3	7	4	1
(19)	Străşeni	13	7	15	11	15	9	20	4	12	12
(20)	Şoldăneşti	5	16	5	5	17	1	2	18	7	13
(21)	ŞtefanVodă	10	15	21	21	21	20	17	5	21	21
(22)	Teleneşti	16	5	22	19	18	2	8	6	5	22

a1: land use; a2: soil quality; a3: built-up area; b1: population; b2: agriculture; b3: unemployment; b4: crime rate.