Multi-hazard risks in New York City

Depietri, Yaella; Dahal, Khila R.; McPhearson, Timon

doi:10.5194/nhess-18-3363-2018

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“…For example, Peng et al mapped the flood extent for Houston and Lumberton with spectral reflectance images from satellites [ 113 ]. Apart from flood risks, there are also multi-hazard assessments that incorporate floods with other risks such as heat waves [ 114 ]. Further studies could be conducted by making use of the results from flood mapping.…”

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Wind disasters adaptation in cities in a changing climate: A systematic review

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Wind-related disasters will bring more devastating consequences to cities in the future with a changing climate, but relevant studies have so far provided insufficient information to guide adaptation actions. This study aims to provide an in-depth elaboration of the contents discussed in open access literature regarding wind disaster adaptation in cities. We used the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to refine topics and main contents based on 232 publications (1900 to 2019) extracted from Web of Science and Scopus. We conducted a full-text analysis to filter out focal cities along with their adaptation measures. The results show that wind disaster adaptation research in cities has formed a systematic framework in four aspects: 1) vulnerability and resilience of cities, 2) damage evaluation, 3) response and recovery, and 4) health impacts of wind disaster. Climate change is the background for many articles discussing vulnerability and adaptation in coastal areas. It is also embedded in damage evaluation since it has the potential to exacerbate disaster consequences. The literature is strongly inclined towards more developed cities such as New York City and New Orleans, among which New York City associated with Hurricane Sandy ranks first (38/232). Studies on New York City cover all the aspects, including the health impacts of wind disasters which are significantly less studied now. Distinct differences do exist in the number of measures regarding the adaptation categories and their subcategories. We also find that hard adaptation measures (i.e., structural and physical measures) are far more popular than soft adaptation measures (i.e., social and institutional measures). Our findings suggest that policymakers should pay more attention to cities that have experienced major wind disasters other than New York. They should embrace the up-to-date climate change study to defend short-term disasters and take precautions against long-term changes. They should also develop hard-soft hybrid adaptation measures, with special attention on the soft side, and enhance the health impact study of wind-related disasters.

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Wind disasters adaptation in cities in a changing climate: A systematic review

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“…Emrich and Cutter () combined county‐level markers of social vulnerability with incidence of multiple hydrometeorological hazards in the southeastern United States, with economic damages as the outcome of interest. Similarly, Depietri et al () assessed spatial overlap between heat, flooding, and social vulnerability for New York City and found convergence in some coastal areas. Others have worked to quantify an integrative measure of this spatial heterogeneity: Monterroso and Conde () developed a municipality‐scale exposure index for climate change in Mexico that integrated meteorological hazards with projected climatic changes and four sociodemographic variables, Binita et al () calculated a county level “climate change vulnerability index” for the state of Georgia, and Zhou et al () demonstrated a province‐scale disaster risk index in China.…”

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“…Recent works have integrated these concepts to assess the interaction between meteorological hazards and vulnerabilities, albeit not with emphases on comprehensive health applications (e.g., Binita et al, ; Depietri et al (); Emrich & Cutter, ; Monterroso & Conde, ). The geographical and environmental health literatures are lacking a comprehensive analysis integrating multiple, health‐relevant meteorological hazards and vulnerabilities for the purpose of identifying localized areas and populations at greatest risk of cumulative climate‐related health effects at multiple scales.…”

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Characterizing Spatial Variability of Climate‐Relevant Hazards and Vulnerabilities in the New England Region of the United States

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Weather and climate have substantial effects on human health. While much is known about how morbidity and mortality are affected by moderate-to-extreme heat, poor air quality, and heavy precipitation individually, less is known about the cumulative occurrence of these climatic hazards, and the extent to which they spatially overlap with community-scale vulnerabilities. Specifically, there is interest in determining whether individuals living in places with the highest exposure to multiple health hazardous climatic conditions are also more vulnerable to having negative health outcomes. Presented here is a spatial analysis of the distribution of health-relevant climatic hazards and social vulnerabilities across the New England region of the northeastern United States. We show that the frequency of excessive heat days, heavy precipitation days, and ozone (O 3 ) and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) exceedances during the warm seasons (May-September) from 2009 to 2014 have distinct spatial distributions and are statistically significantly correlated across space with indicators of social vulnerability. We further quantify an integrated measure of the hazards and vulnerabilities to illustrate the spatial heterogeneity of overall risk, as well as to demonstrate how the choice of spatial scale influences the identification of high-risk areas. These methods are transferrable to other locations and contexts, which could be of utility not only to geographers and epidemiologists, but also to policymakers tasked with allocating public health resources to populations at greatest risk of weather-and climate-related health effects.Plain Language Summary It is well established that extreme heat, air pollution, and heavy rain can have negative effects on public health and that certain populations are particularly susceptible to these impacts. However, little attention has been given to how the frequency of these different types of hazards are distributed across space and whether they tend to cluster in places where people are more vulnerable to their negative health effects. In this paper, we examine weather and air pollution in New England and apply a method for identifying communities that have both frequent climate-related hazards and particularly vulnerable populations. Our applications are transferrable and expandable to other locations and hazards of interest, and they are of use both to researchers and decision-makers aiming to assess and reduce weather-and climate-related risks to public health.

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“… 2017 ), especially as the impacts of climate change in cities increase risk of flooding or heat waves in vulnerable communities and thus create new environmental justice challenges (Depietri et al. 2018 , Pelling and Garschagen 2019 ).…”

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Mapping supply of and demand for ecosystem services to assess environmental justice in New York City

Herreros-Cantis

McPhearson

2021

Ecological Applications

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Livability, resilience, and justice in cities are challenged by climate change and the historical legacies that together create disproportionate impacts on human communities. Urban green infrastructure has emerged as an important tool for climate change adaptation and resilience given their capacity to provide ecosystem services such as local temperature regulation, stormwater mitigation, and air purification. However, realizing the benefits of ecosystem services for climate adaptation depend on where they are locally supplied. Few studies have examined the potential spatial mismatches in supply and demand of urban ecosystem services, and even fewer have examined supply–demand mismatches as a potential environmental justice issue, such as when supply–demand mismatches disproportionately overlap with certain socio‐demographic groups. We spatially analyzed demand for ecosystem services relevant for climate change adaptation and combined results with recent analysis of the supply of ecosystem services in New York City (NYC). By quantifying the relative mismatch between supply and demand of ecosystem services across the city we were able to identify spatial hot‐ and coldspots of supply–demand mismatch. Hotspots are spatial clusters of census blocks with a higher mismatch and coldspots are clusters with lower mismatch values than their surrounding blocks. The distribution of mismatch hot‐ and coldspots was then compared to the spatial distribution of socio‐demographic groups. Results reveal distributional environmental injustice of access to the climate‐regulating benefits of ecosystem services provided by urban green infrastructure in NYC. Analyses show that areas with lower supply–demand mismatch tend to be populated by a larger proportion of white residents with higher median incomes, and areas with high mismatch values have lower incomes and a higher proportion of people of color. We suggest that urban policy and planning should ensure that investments in “nature‐based” solutions such as through urban green infrastructure for climate change adaptation do not reinforce or exacerbate potentially existing environmental injustices.

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Multi-hazard risks in New York City

Cited by 34 publications

References 67 publications

Wind disasters adaptation in cities in a changing climate: A systematic review

Wind disasters adaptation in cities in a changing climate: A systematic review

Characterizing Spatial Variability of Climate‐Relevant Hazards and Vulnerabilities in the New England Region of the United States

Mapping supply of and demand for ecosystem services to assess environmental justice in New York City

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