Mapping vulnerability to climate change-related hazards: children at risk in a US–Mexico border metropolis

Collins, Timothy W.; Grineski, Sara E.; Ford, Paula B.; Aldouri, Raed; Aguilar, María de Lourdes Romo; Velázquez-Angulo, Gilberto; Fitzgerald, Rosa M.; Lü, Daren

doi:10.1007/s11111-012-0170-8

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“…Only a few studies directly worked with decision makers (e.g., Collins et al, ; de Sherbinin, Chai‐Onn, Jaiteh, et al, ; Kienberger, ; Lindley et al, 2011; McCusker et al, ; Preston et al, ; Roy & Blaschke, ; Weber et al, ). These studies generally found that the co‐production of knowledge was important to the success of the project.…”

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“…Without context or stakeholder engagement, maps may become an end in themselves, rather than an entry point for discussion or "boundary object" for discussion among stakeholders (de Sherbinin et al, 2017, Preston et al, 2011. Only a few studies directly worked with decision makers (e.g., Collins et al, 2013;Kienberger, 2012;Lindley et al, 2011;McCusker et al, 2016;Preston et al, 2009;Roy & Blaschke, 2015;Weber et al, 2015). These studies generally found that the co-production of knowledge was important to the success of the project.…”

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Climate vulnerability mapping: A systematic review and future prospects

Sherbinin

Bukvic

Rohat

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WIREs Climate Change

114

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Maps synthesizing climate, biophysical and socioeconomic data have become part of the standard tool‐kit for communicating the risks of climate change to society. Vulnerability maps are used to direct attention to geographic areas where impacts on society are expected to be greatest and that may therefore require adaptation interventions. Under the Green Climate Fund and other bilateral climate adaptation funding mechanisms, donors are investing billions of dollars of adaptation funds, often with guidance from modeling results, visualized and communicated through maps and spatial decision support tools. This paper presents the results of a systematic review of 84 studies that map social vulnerability to climate impacts. These assessments are compiled by interdisciplinary teams of researchers, span many regions, range in scale from local to global, and vary in terms of frameworks, data, methods, and thematic foci. The goal is to identify common approaches to mapping, evaluate their strengths and limitations, and offer recommendations and future directions for the field. The systematic review finds some convergence around common frameworks developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, frequent use of linear index aggregation, and common approaches to the selection and use of climate and socioeconomic data. Further, it identifies limitations such as a lack of future climate and socioeconomic projections in many studies, insufficient characterization of uncertainty, challenges in map validation, and insufficient engagement with policy audiences for those studies that purport to be policy relevant. Finally, it provides recommendations for addressing the identified shortcomings. This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation

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Climate vulnerability mapping: A systematic review and future prospects

Sherbinin

Bukvic

Rohat

et al. 2019

WIREs Climate Change

114

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“…Christopher Uejio and his colleagues (2011) analyzed the health impacts of urban heat in both Phoenix and Philadelphia by utilizing LST and impervious‐surface data in conjunction with a generalized linear mixed‐model approach to correct for temporal autocorrelation in the data. Additionally, recent studies in the U.S.–Mexico border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, Mexico, have examined the spatial and social distribution of urban heat exposure at the neighborhood level (Grineski and others , ; Collins and others ). These studies used LST measures derived from Landsat imagery and spatial regression modeling to correct for spatial autocorrelation, in their analysis of exposure and vulnerability to extreme heat and other climate change related risks.…”

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“…Specifically, much of the previous research has not comprehensively assessed the spatial pattern of urban heat within study areas. Additionally, only a few recent studies have used geostatistical techniques to account for spatial dependence in the data (Grineski and others , ; Collins and others ). Our study addresses the methodological limitations of previous work and extends climate justice research through a case study that examines social and spatial inequities in the distribution of urban heat in Pinellas County, Florida.…”

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Urban Heat and Climate Justice: A Landscape of Thermal Inequity in Pinellas County, Florida

Mitchell

Chakraborty

2014

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ABSTRACT. The combined effects of two global trends, urbanization and climate change, have generated considerable concern regarding their adverse and disproportionate impacts on the health of urban populations. This study contributes to climate-justice research by determining whether elevated levels of urban heat, indicated by land surface temperature (LST), are distributed inequitably with respect to race/ethnicity, age, and socioeconomic status in Pinellas County, Florida. Our study utilizes 2010 MODIS and Landsat mediumresolution, remotely sensed thermal data, census socio-demographic information, and both conventional and spatial statistical methods. Results indicate that LST is significantly greater in census tracts characterized by higher percentages of certain racial/ethnic minorities and higher poverty rates, even after controlling for contextual factors and the effects of spatial autocorrelation. This reveals the presence of a landscape of thermal inequity: uneven distribution of heat within the built urban environment and a community structure with varying vulnerability.

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“…These socio-demographic changes occurred in a city that was already vulnerable to changing climatic conditions (Collins et al 2013), and where exposure to increasingly extreme summer heat is of growing concern (see Table 1). Heat vulnerability in Juárez derives from characteristics of the urban environment and its residents.…”

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Double exposure and the climate gap: changing demographics and extreme heat in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

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Scholars have recognized a climate gap, wherein poor communities face disproportionate impacts of climate change. Others have noted that climate change and economic globalization may mutually affect a region or social group, leading to double exposure. This paper investigates how current and changing patterns of neighborhood demographics are associated with extreme heat in the border city of Juárez, Mexico. Many Juárez neighborhoods are at-risk to triple exposures, in which residents suffer due to the conjoined effects of the global recession, drug war violence, and extreme heat. Due to impacts of the recession on maquiladora employment and the explosion of drug violence (since 2008), over 75% of neighborhoods experienced decreasing population density between 2000 and 2010 and the average neighborhood saw a 40% increase in the proportion of older adults. Neighborhoods with greater drops in population density and increases in the proportion of older residents over the decade are at significantly higher risk to extreme heat, as are neighborhoods with lower population density and lower levels of education. In this context, triple exposures are associated with a climate gap that most endangers lower socioeconomic status and increasingly older aged populations remaining in neighborhoods from which high proportions of residents have departed.

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Mapping vulnerability to climate change-related hazards: children at risk in a US–Mexico border metropolis

Cited by 11 publications

References 75 publications

Climate vulnerability mapping: A systematic review and future prospects

Climate vulnerability mapping: A systematic review and future prospects

Urban Heat and Climate Justice: A Landscape of Thermal Inequity in Pinellas County, Florida

Double exposure and the climate gap: changing demographics and extreme heat in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

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