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Regionalizing Resilience to Acute Meteorological Events: Comparison of Regions in the U.S.
Citation:
Summers, Kevin, L. Harwell, L. Smith, AND K. Buck. Regionalizing Resilience to Acute Meteorological Events: Comparison of Regions in the U.S. Frontiers in Environmental Science. Frontiers, Lausanne, Switzerland, 6(147):17, (2018). https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00147
Impact/Purpose:
This study highlights the use of the Climate Resilience Screening Index (CRSI) to examine acute climate event resilience in 9 United States Census Tract regions. Inter- and intra-regional comparisons examine overall resilience; decomposed CRSI scores examine domain importance to the score and important indicators within the domains. This allows regions and states to examine resilience results in a useful format and thus enrich the dialog and contribute to decision making that results in stronger regional, state and community resilience.
Description:
Using a Climate Resilience Screening Index (CRSI) that was developed to represent resilience to acute weather events at multiple scales for the United States, nine regions of the United States are compared for resilience for these types of natural hazards. The comparison examines the domains, indicators, and metrics of CRSI addressing environmental, economic, and societal aspects of resilience to acute climate events at county scales. The index was applied at the county scale and aggregated to represent select regions of the United States. Comparisons showed higher levels of resilience in the Northeast and West, including Alaska, (>4.0) while counties in the South Atlantic and South-Central regions exhibited lower resilience (0.60), and above national median scores for society, built environment and natural environment domains which enhances their resilience scores. South Atlantic and South-Central regions of the US are characterized by higher risk scores (>0.31) accompanied by lower levels of governance (<0.48) and below national median scores for society and built environment domains reducing the region's overall resilience.
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DOI: Regionalizing Resilience to Acute Meteorological Events: Comparison of Regions in the U.S.