Developing a Climate-Induced Social Vulnerability Index for Urban Areas [electronic resource] : A Case Study of East Tennessee

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 363.7 Environmental problems
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 41 p. : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 261952
• Chủ đề: 1. 54 environmental sciences; 2. 60 applied life sciences

Tóm tắt

Census American Community Survey 2008-2012 data are used to construct a spatially explicit Climate-Induced Social Vulnerability Index (CSVI) for the East Tennessee area. This CSVI is a combination of a Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) and a Climate Index. A method is replicated and adapted to derive a custom SVI by Census tract for the counties participating in the East Tennessee Index, and a Climate Index is developed for the same area based on indicators for climate hazards. The resulting datasets are exported as a raster to be integrated and combined within the Urban Climate Adaptation Tool (Urban-CAT) to act as an indicator for communities which may be differentially vulnerable to changes in climate. Results for the SVI are mapped separately from the complete CSVI in this document as results for the latter are in development.