The Long Road Home: Race, Class, and Recovery from Hurricane Katrina

Cutter, Susan L.; Emrich, Christopher T.; Mitchell, Jerry T.; Boruff, Bryan; Gall, Melanie; Schmidtlein, Mathew C.; Burton, Christopher; Melton, Ginni

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“…Guided by these general factors and by the work of Cutter et al (2003), we constructed Social Vulnerability Indices (SoVIs) in New York City and Mumbai based on available census data. The SoVI was originally developed to compare the hazard vulnerability of U.S. counties, but has been modified to allow for localscale analyses (Cutter et al 2006, Schmidtlein et al 2008) and applications of similar social vulnerability indices outside the U.S. (Fekete 2010, Crooks 2009, Confalonieri et al 2009). The exposure aspects were measured using the available flood and flood risk data layers for each city.…”

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Social vulnerability to floods in two coastal megacities: New York City and Mumbai

Sherbinin¹,

Bardy²

2016

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In this paper we assess differential exposure to flooding in two coastal megacities, New York and Mumbai, both of which suffered major flood-related disasters in the past decade. Specifically, we examine whether the most exposed populations are also the most socially vulnerable. First, we developed Social Vulnerability Indices (SoVIs) for each city with census data. We then overlaid the SoVI scores onto flood extent maps for Hurricane Sandy (New York, October 2012) and the Mumbai flash floods (July 2005), as well as for the evacuation zones for New York, to examine patterns of differential exposure. Our results suggest a degree of differential exposure in New York, especially in the highest flood risk areas, and provide fairly clear evidence for differential exposure in Mumbai. However, differences in the input resolution and confidence in the datasets for Mumbai make the results more uncertain. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy implications and the data needs for urban spatial vulnerability assessments.

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Social vulnerability to floods in two coastal megacities: New York City and Mumbai

Sherbinin¹,

Bardy²

2016

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“…Especially worrisome is the prospect of future hurricane storm surge. The literature supports that these factors are anticipated to impact the exposure, thus vulnerability [10,11], of coastal communities to hurricane flood effects: sea-level rise [12][13][14][15][16], new trends in storm strength and frequency due to climate change [17,18], shifts or trends in demographics, wealth, population [10,19,20], and mitigation and/or adaptive or resiliency planning [15,[21][22][23]. Sea-level rise increases potential community storm surge exposure by increasing potential storm surge inundation and flooding [15].…”

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A GIS Methodology to Assess Exposure of Coastal Infrastructure to Storm Surge & Sea-Level Rise: A Case Study of Sarasota County, Florida

Tate¹,

Frazier²

2013

J Geogr Nat Disast

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Storm surge is the leading cause of loss of life and property from hurricanes. Recent research using geographical information system (GIS) technology has demonstrated sea level rise (SLR) will increase storm surge inundation zones. While effective and accepted GIS models exist for framing surge inundation there is a lack of depth information and consideration of SLR that may be critical for examining the exposure of coastal assets to current and future storm surge hazards. There is a need for a methodology that relates depth to inundation and asset exposure, and is supported by recent hazard vulnerability and resilience literature. Furthermore, new data has been collected that facilitates more detailed SLR modelling than available in previous research. Researchers provide a framework for GIS depth modelling of contemporary and SLR enhanced storm surge that is superior to two-dimensional inundation modelling for examining exposure of societal assets to storm surge and SLR in Sarasota County, Florida. The effectiveness of this framework is demonstrated in a GIS by comparing inundation modelling, depth modelling, and SLR modelling as applied to the exposure of flood-depth sensitive infrastructure in Sarasota County, Florida.

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“…Although definitions and applications of the term vulnerability vary (Cutter 1996;Weichselgartner 2001), common elements within the natural hazard's literature include concepts of exposure, sensitivity, and resilience (Cutter et al 2006;Cutter 2003;Dow 1992;Hewitt 1997;Turner et al 2003). Exposure is related to hazard proximity and the environmental characteristics of a place, while sensitivity and resilience are characteristics of an individual, group, or socioeconomic system.…”

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Community variations in social vulnerability to Cascadia-related tsunamis in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

2009

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Tsunamis generated by Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes pose significant threats to coastal communities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Impacts of future tsunamis to individuals and communities will likely vary due to pre-event socioeconomic and demographic differences. In order to assess social vulnerability to Cascadia tsunamis, we adjust a social vulnerability index based on principal component analysis first developed by Cutter et al. (2003) to operate at the census-block level of geography and focus on community-level comparisons along the Oregon coast. The number of residents from blocks in tsunami-prone areas considered to have higher social vulnerability varies considerably among 26 Oregon cities and most are concentrated in four cities and two unincorporated areas. Variations in the number of residents from census blocks considered to have higher social vulnerability in each city do not strongly correlate with the number of residents or city assets in tsunami-prone areas. Methods presented here will help emergency managers to identify community sub-groups that are more susceptible to loss and to develop riskreduction strategies that are tailored to local conditions.

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The Long Road Home: Race, Class, and Recovery from Hurricane Katrina

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Social vulnerability to floods in two coastal megacities: New York City and Mumbai

Social vulnerability to floods in two coastal megacities: New York City and Mumbai

A GIS Methodology to Assess Exposure of Coastal Infrastructure to Storm Surge & Sea-Level Rise: A Case Study of Sarasota County, Florida

Community variations in social vulnerability to Cascadia-related tsunamis in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

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