Building Risk‐Informed Communities

McClain, Shanna N.; Kruczkiewicz, Andrew; Ndugwa, Robert; Braneon, Christian; Bader, Daniel A.; Bazo, Juan

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“…Second, there is no measurement of recovery across populations of varied demographics and local biophysical conditions in affected locations. Without analyzing disparate recovery impacts, insights are less conducive to prioritizing needs, assessing changing flood risks (McClain et al., 2022), and informing future recovery efforts. Third, EO is used in very few events to monitor recovery, limiting our ability to understand recovery trends and build resilience for the next flood event.…”

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Earth Observation to Address Inequities in Post‐Flood Recovery

Friedrich,

Tellman,

Sullivan

et al. 2024

Earth's Future

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Floods impact communities worldwide, resulting in loss of life, damaged infrastructure and natural assets, and threatened livelihoods. Climate change and urban development in flood‐prone areas will continue to worsen flood‐related losses, increasing the urgency for effective tools to monitor recovery. Many Earth Observation (EO) applications exist for flood‐hazard monitoring and provide insights on location, timing, and extent in near real‐time and historically to estimate flood risk. Less attention has been paid to flood recovery, even though differing recovery rates and outcomes can have immediate and enduring distributional effects within communities. EO data are uniquely positioned to monitor post‐flood recovery and inform policy on hazard mitigation and adaptation but remain underutilized. We encourage the EO and flood research community to refocus on developing flood recovery applications to address growing risk. Translation of EO insights on flood recovery among flood‐affected communities and decision‐makers is necessary to address underlying social vulnerabilities that exacerbate inequitable recovery outcomes and advocate for redressing injustices where disparate recovery is observed. We identify an unequivocal need for EO to move beyond mapping flood hazard and exposure toward post‐flood recovery monitoring to inform recovery across geographic contexts. This commentary proposes a framework for remote sensing scientists to engage community‐based partners to integrate EO with non‐EO data to advance flood recovery monitoring, characterize inequitable recovery, redistribute resources to mitigate inequities, and support risk reduction of future floods.

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Section: Operational Entities Monitoring Post‐flood Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

Earth Observation to Address Inequities in Post‐Flood Recovery

Friedrich,

Tellman,

Sullivan

et al. 2024

Earth's Future

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“…There is already wide recognition that EO is a key data element to support resilient disaster risk management, evidenced by existing institutional organizations and protocols in place to use EO for disaster response and recovery (Khan et al, 2020;Kruczkiewicz et al, 2022;Marlier et al, 2022;Percivall et al, 2013;Petiteville et al, 2015;Zuccaro et al, 2020). The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 promotes using satellite-based and insitu information to support its first action, "Understanding disaster risk" (GP-STAR, 2017).…”

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“…The first gap is an explicit measurement of how recovery trajectories differ across populations of varied demographics and local biophysical conditions in affected locations. Without analyzing disparate recovery impacts, insights are less conducive to prioritizing needs, assessing changing flood risks manuscript submitted to Earth's Future (McClain et al, 2022), and informing future recovery efforts. The second gap is that long-term recovery monitoring often concludes months after the flood event, restricting the capacity of these protocols and programs to support monitoring of both short-and long-run recovery, which may last years after an event.…”

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“…Specific to flood hazards and impacts, EO has made significant strides in flood detection in recent years, including providing unprecedented observations of flood extent and duration (Schumann, 2021). Critically, EO has added new perspectives on understanding changes in global flood risk where flood models remain coarse or lack consistency (McClain et al, 2022;Tellman & Sullivan et al, 2021).…”

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Earth Observation to Monitor and Redress Inequitable Post-Flood Recovery

Friedrich,

Tellman,

Sullivan

et al. 2023

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Floods impact communities worldwide, resulting in an estimated $651 billion (USD) in damages, countless fatalities, and threatened livelihoods over the last two decades alone. Climate change and urban development in flood-prone areas will continue to worsen flood-related losses increasing the urgency for effective tools to monitor recovery. Many Earth Observation (EO) applications exist for flood-hazard monitoring and provide insights on location, timing, and extent in near real-time and historically to estimate flood risk. Less attention has been paid to flood recovery, even though differing recovery rates and outcomes can have immediate and enduring effects within communities. Here, we define post-flood recovery as a change in land cover types, conditions, or land surface features in the days, weeks, months, or years following a flood event. EO data are uniquely positioned to monitor post-flood recovery and inform policy on hazard mitigation and adaptation but remain underutilized. We urge the EO and flood research community to renew focus on developing flood recovery applications to address growing flood risk. Both methodological innovations and translation of EO insights on flood recovery among flood-affected communities and decision-makers are necessary to address underlying vulnerabilities in social systems that exacerbate flooding. We identify an unequivocal need for EO to move beyond hazard mapping to post-flood recovery monitoring to inform recovery across geographic contexts. This commentary proposes a framework to use EO to advance flood recovery monitoring, characterize inequitable recovery, redistribute resources to mitigate inequities, and support risk reduction of future floods.

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Building Risk‐Informed Communities

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Earth Observation to Address Inequities in Post‐Flood Recovery

Earth Observation to Address Inequities in Post‐Flood Recovery

Earth Observation to Monitor and Redress Inequitable Post-Flood Recovery

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