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A support system for assessing local vulnerability to weather and climate

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  • Alex Coletti
  • Peter Howe
  • Brent Yarnal
  • Nathan Wood

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The changing number and nature of weather- and climate-related natural hazards is causing more communities to need to assess their vulnerabilities. Vulnerability assessments, however, often require considerable expertise and resources that are not available or too expensive for many communities. To meet the need for an easy-to-use, cost-effective vulnerability assessment tool for communities, a prototype online vulnerability assessment support system was built and tested. This prototype tool guides users through a stakeholder-based vulnerability assessment that breaks the process into four easy-to-implement steps. Data sources are integrated in the online environment so that perceived risks—defined and prioritized qualitatively by users—can be compared and discussed against the impacts that past events have had on the community. The support system is limited in scope, and the locations of the case studies do not provide a sufficiently broad range of sample cases. The addition of more publically available hazard databases combined with future improvements in the support system architecture and software will expand opportunities for testing and fully implementing the support system. Copyright US Government 2013

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  • Alex Coletti & Peter Howe & Brent Yarnal & Nathan Wood, 2013. "A support system for assessing local vulnerability to weather and climate," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 65(1), pages 999-1008, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:65:y:2013:i:1:p:999-1008
    DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0366-3
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