Assessing Vulnerability to Heat: A Geospatial Analysis for the City of Philadelphia

Barron, Laura; Ruggieri, Dominique G.; Branas, Charles C.

doi:10.3390/urbansci2020038

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“…Kershaw et al [62] took apparent temperature intensity, exposure duration, and humidity into consideration, only focusing on the natural environment without any demographic and socioeconomic properties. Barron et al [16] employed 5 commonly used indicators, i.e., age, race, economic status, education level, and social isolation, incorporating demographic characteristics and socioeconomic properties but without environment-related considerations. On the other hand, the same circumstance also occurred in the assessment studies with many indicators.…”

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“…This review found EW and PCA were the most frequently used weighting methods in heat vulnerability studies. Substantial studies [16,85,99] asserted that they decided to allocate all indicators or components with equal weights by referring to literature reviews on previous heat-related research. They assumed that each element is independent and represented a separate dimension of vulnerable targets to heat exposure.…”

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“…An increasing number of methods have been developed to assess urban heat vulnerability in different locations across the world concentrating on diverse aspects [13][14][15], with the aim of helping local urban planning departments to make scientific and effective planning and policies on mitigating the impacts of extreme heat [11,16,17]. Before 2010, there were only a few studies [18,19] modelling urban heat vulnerability in limited locations.…”

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Understanding Urban Heat Vulnerability Assessment Methods: A PRISMA Review

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Increasingly people, especially those residing in urban areas with the urban heat island effect, are getting exposed to extreme heat due to ongoing global warming. A number of methods have been developed, so far, to assess urban heat vulnerability in different locations across the world concentrating on diverse aspects of these methods. While there is growing literature, thorough review studies that compare, contrast, and help understand the prospects and constraints of urban heat vulnerability assessment methods are scarce. This paper aims to bridge this gap in the literature. A systematic literature review with the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) approach is utilized as the methodological approach. PRISMA is an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The results are analyzed in three aspects—i.e., indicators and data, modelling approaches, and validation approaches. The main findings disclose that: (a) Three types of indicators are commonly used—i.e., demographic properties and socioeconomic status, health conditions and medical resources, and natural and built environmental factors; (b) Heat vulnerability indexing models, equal weighting method, and principal component analysis are commonly used in modelling and weighting approaches; (c) Statistical regressions and correlation coefficients between heat vulnerability results and adverse health outcomes are commonly used in validation approaches, but the performance varies across studies. This study informs urban policy and generates directions for prospective research and more accurate vulnerability assessment method development.

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“…Urban freight dynamics significantly influence infrastructure utilisation and, therefore, transport externalities, companies (shippers and receivers) size, temporal patterns, fleet types, infrastructure conditions, assistive technologies, and freight types typically emerge as essential planning variables for freight operations [21][22][23][24] but are rarely considered for government-led infrastructure planning and management. Spatial analysis of companies' locations through the lens of economic geography principles provides a framework for defining FTZ, facilitating the application of UFI through a spatial and operational conditions-based analysis [25].…”

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A Framework for Integrating Freight Transport, Urban Land Planning, and Infrastructure Management under Economic Geography Principles

Barrera-Jiménez,

Pineda-Jaramillo

2024

Urban Science

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This study presents a conceptual framework proposal for integrating urban freight initiatives (UFIs), or city logistics initiatives, into urban planning and urban management (UPUM) land use and infrastructure systems. As a novel approach, this framework integrates three components: Firstly, a conceptual basis on three economic geography theory principles—location, agglomeration, and urbanisation. Secondly, spatial analysis and subsequent clustering integrate companies’ spatial positions, their proximity to other companies, their freight intensity, and the characteristics of the zonal road infrastructure; these clusters are defined as freight traffic zones (FTZs). Thirdly, a functional yet strategic UFI clustering or grouping is proposed to work in an optimised and integrated manner with the FTZs’ opportunities for efficiency and reduced externalities. It is expected that the integrated result of these three components can serve to optimise freight initiatives and road infrastructure from a city governance perspective, reduce freight externalities, and function as a stakeholder cooperation tool from government-led, policy-driven perspectives. This research also identifies and characterises various variables influencing the emergence and existence (planned or organic) of FTZs and shows how these could be incorporated into high-level UPUM processes. Although it is deemed that the principles and methodological approach followed here could be common to urban areas, an example for the Metropolitan Area of the Aburra Valley (MAAV), in Colombia, is presented as an initial case study. Conclusively, this paper introduces a pioneering methodology for integrating UFIs into city or metropolitan governance, offering guidance for policymakers to promote sustainable freight systems.

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Influence of Nairobi’s Biophysical Characteristics on its Vulnerability to a Changing Climate

Abuje

Otoki

Njuguna

2020

East Afr. j. environ. nat. resour.

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Urban areas experience exacerbated impacts of the regional climate variability because of their form characteristics such as imperviousness of surfaces, building density and distribution of open spaces. These are further confounded by geographical aspects such as topography, soil types, and vegetation types. Nairobi city is increasingly exposed to flood and heat risk as an aggregation of its urban form and the changing global climate. The paper sought to establish the influence of Nairobi’s biophysical characteristics on its vulnerability to both flooding and heat risks. The paper used a descriptive research design augmented with Geographic Information Systems to spatially model the landcover, soil drainage, topography, green space networks, and population density characteristics at the sub-location level. Vulnerability indices were developed using the expert ranking system and used to determine the vulnerability of the different sub-locations. The findings revealed a vulnerability pattern close to the historically segregated planning of the city. The central and eastern parts of the city exhibit high vulnerability while the western, northwestern, and southern parts of the city display moderate to low vulnerability. The paper recommends that adapting existing neighbourhoods and proactive planning of new neighbourhoods uses the ecosystem-based approach. This to entail decentralization of smaller green spaces, redesign of road medians for water management, re-specification of street vegetation species to incorporate a mix of deciduous and evergreen trees and incorporating eco-roofs and walls in high-density developments like the Central Business District.

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Assessing Vulnerability to Heat: A Geospatial Analysis for the City of Philadelphia

Cited by 13 publications

References 38 publications

Understanding Urban Heat Vulnerability Assessment Methods: A PRISMA Review

Understanding Urban Heat Vulnerability Assessment Methods: A PRISMA Review

A Framework for Integrating Freight Transport, Urban Land Planning, and Infrastructure Management under Economic Geography Principles

Influence of Nairobi’s Biophysical Characteristics on its Vulnerability to a Changing Climate

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