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Pilot Study on Exposure and Vulnerability Indicators for U.S. Coastal Counties
Status
In Progress
Project Team
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Description
To date, this pilot study has focused on identification and collection of coastal vulnerability indicators and related data sets. This work feeds into two broader multidisciplinary and multi-investigator research initiatives:
Displacement Due to Catastrophic Hurricanes: Assessing Potential Magnitude and Policy Implications for Housing and Land Development
Study area: Gulf and Atlantic coastal counties (2-counties deep)
Progress: Base maps have been created, Geolytics software has been used to extract socioeconomic variable, and four (IV) iterations of socio-economic vulnerability scores have been calculated and mapped.
Long-Term Disruption Potential of Coastal Hazards to Florida’s Institutions of Higher Education
Study area: Florida’s coastal counties
Progress: Property, facilities and infrastructure data have been compiled in a matrix for calculation of exposure scores.
Index and score building methodologies are informed by vulnerability assessment initiatives at the University of South Carolina’s Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute, and the University of Louisville Center for Hazards Research and Policy Development.
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