gmh attempts to liveblog the southeast florida climate resilience summit
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* Flux.land - geospatial info + municipal data, in multiple formats suited for civil users, govt., etc.
* RiskMa.us - relevant info from city, social media, traditional media -> integrated into a single dataset -> disseminated to public users and municipal managers
* * hard-to-use municipal info (e.g. tables with weirdly-coded names/jargon) -> translate to easy-to-understand, publicly-accessible datasets (e.g. maps, lay language)
* * pilot project: Broward County
* * integrated with social media apps
* * gives opportunity for citizen reporting of environmental/resilience issues, e.g. localized rain/tidal flooding
citizen reporting:
* access to information + meaningful topic motivating involvement
* interest in socially/environmentall conscious investing
US Climate Resilience Toolkit
1. explore (information?)
2. assess vulnerabilities
3. investigate options
4. prioritize actions
5. take action
need continual assessment of climate vulnerabilities - update continually because they are changing continually. tie them into GIS systems?
ALL MODELS ARE WRONG
BUT SOME ARE USEFUL
EVERY EVENT TEACHES US SOMETHING NEW
Broward's $15B (or $1.5B? my notes aren't clear) question (note: it's not actually clear in my notes what that question was, but it basically had to do with a conceptual framework of "what kind of strategy should Broward County use to approach resilience planning?")
* underlying exposures:
* property values
* content values: all the stuff property contains
* economic value that passes through - e.g. things that businesses depend on
* eXceedance probability curve:
exceedance
probability
^
||
| \
| \
| ------------
+---------------> modeled economic impact
It's an asymptotic curve. low-impact events have high probability of occurring; high-impact (catastrophic) events have low probability.
As sea level rises, the curve shifts out. this means same level of impact has higher probability, and same level of probability has higher impact.
* Return on investment is sensitive to resilience targets.
plans change as they are implemented - there is not one single "master plan"
* needs to have options
* can't plan forever
* there is uncertainty
* it's a community plan: need to visualize it for the community
January 25-26 2018: Resilient Utility Coalition meeting