Leveraging social media data to study the community resilience of New York City to 2019 power outage

Li, Lingyao; Ma, Zihui; Cao, Tao

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101776

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“…Preparing the public could improve their ability to respond and recover from disruptions [22]; however, communicating the need for preparedness might not have the desired effect, because people are accustomed to a reliable energy supply [25]. Community resourcesboth physical and emotionalcan provide valuable resilience potential, but this tends to be underestimated [26,27]. For example, an expert stakeholder case study of a several-day outage in Lancaster in 2015 demonstrated that lack of community spaces quickly became an issue, with people gathering in the overcrowded hospital [28].…”

Section: Energy Disruption and Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland

Cox

2023

Energy Research & Social Science

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Section: Energy Disruption and Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland

Cox

2023

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…The current measurement of community resilience is also focused on disaster prevention, ecology and environment, as well as on macro-level evaluations. 23 Bene 24 corresponded the index of community resilience to governance cost, while Chang and Shinozuka 25 extended monetary measurement to organizations, technology and society. Tian et al 26 proposed a framework for measuring community resilience based on five aspects: original conditions, coping capacity, adaptability, disaster loss and disaster exposure.…”

Section: Community Resilience and Public Heathmentioning

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How community medical facilities can promote resilient community constructions under the background of pandemics

Fang

Deng

et al. 2022

Indoor and Built Environment

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Nowadays, urban and community resilience have become the core issues of urban theoretical research and construction practices. While there are many studies on climate change, natural hazards and environmental pollution, relatively less attention has been paid to public and human health. However, the current COVID-19 pandemic, which is a major global public health crisis, is posing severe challenges to the resilience of cities and communities in the context of high-mobility, high-density and high-intensity, as well as expands the connotation of community resilience to public health. To compensate for the lack of current research, this study examined the characteristics of community medical facilities in response to pandemics at urban, community and individual multi-spatial scales based on a thorough review of current research and relevant practice. It also emphasized the significant role played by community medical facilities in improving resilient community constructions in the face of large-scale public health emergencies. These characteristics were fully utilized to explore ways to build and govern the ‘resilience' of communities in the future, help people to survive better as well as develop in complex and changeable external environments.

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“…Currently, the majority of big cities and small villages have experienced a power outage at least once in their recent history. In large cities that are heavily based on electricity consuming technologies, power outage may cause detrimental consequences which are very visible for the general public (see Marx et al [38] or Anderson and Bell [39] for the consequences of power outage in New York in August 2003; or Li et al [40] for the Manhattan blackout in July 2019). In small villages or in locations with less resistant electricity networks, power outages might be even more and the costs might be enormous (see the studies by Akter [41] for the town of Dhaka in Bangladesh or Sun et al [42] for the city of Shanghai in China).…”

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Factors Influencing the Threats for Urban Energy Networks: The Inhabitants’ Point of View

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Our paper focuses on eliciting the factors that constitute threats and dangers for urban energy networks, information networks, and energy grids in the cities. Moreover, we attempt to determine how these threats are perceived by the inhabitants of those cities. Urban energy networks tend to play an increasing role in achieving energy efficiency and environmental sustainability in large urban centers. Even though they do not necessarily correspond to reality, public opinions can substantially influence the adoption of relevant technologies in populous urban locations. We use the public opinion representative survey data from the Czech Republic (a sample of 1023 respondents) in order to show how people perceive the dangers and threats for urban energy networks from such events as: (i) Extensive and long-term power outage; (ii) service disruption of the Internet, mobile networks or telephone landlines; (iii) cyber-attacks, and (iv) the technological dependence of the state on multinational technological companies. Our results demonstrate that people who live in small rural settlements and medium-sized cities tend to be more afraid of the threats and dangers from urban energy networks such as electricity and Internet outages, compared to people residing in some smaller towns. As far as there would always be a fear of the new technologies and their vulnerabilities, the local governments, mass media, and Internet resources alike should pay more attention to providing the relevant and updated information on the threats to urban energy networks for the general public.

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Leveraging social media data to study the community resilience of New York City to 2019 power outage

Cited by 32 publications

References 38 publications

“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland

“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland

How community medical facilities can promote resilient community constructions under the background of pandemics

Factors Influencing the Threats for Urban Energy Networks: The Inhabitants’ Point of View

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