Mapping social vulnerability to enhance housing and neighborhood resilience

Zandt, Shannon Van; Peacock, Walter Gillis; Henry, Dustin W.; Grover, Himanshu; Highfield, Wesley E.; Brody, Samuel D.

doi:10.1080/10511482.2011.624528

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“…Research has begun to note that on top of city-wide development issues, there is an unequal distribution of disaster impacts affecting those least likely to be able to respond, and that those impacts are not simply a function of the disaster agent (Highfield, Peacock, & Van Zandt, 2014; Van Zandt et al, 2012). Physical vulnerability to hazard events, such as flooding or storm surge, is potentially compounded by inadequate funding, investment, and maintenance of infrastructure, especially for social groups who have been segregated or marginalized into risky areas or housing.…”

Section: Environmental Justice and Sustainable Infrastructurementioning

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“…Social vulnerability, defined by Blaikie, Cannon, Davis, and Wisner (1994, p. 9), describes this process by which the social stratification of population groups results in disproportionate disaster risk and impacts within a society, specifically: “the characteristics of a person or group in terms of their capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impacts of a natural hazard.” Importantly, these same social factors—such as, race, income, age, ability, nationality, gender, etc.—that determine social vulnerability to disaster may also explain uneven provision of public works and facilities, and thus compound disaster risk. The extent to which minority and low-income households (as well as female-headed, elderly, disabled, or transportation-dependent households) are disproportionately housed in low-quality homes in low-lying areas with infrastructure potentially in disrepair makes them susceptible to greater impacts from flooding, storm surge, and other environmental hazards (Highfield, Peacock, & Van Zandt, 2014; Masterson et al, 2014; Van Zandt, 2007; Van Zandt et al, 2012). …”

Section: Environmental Justice and Sustainable Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

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The development of a participatory assessment technique for infrastructure: Neighborhood-level monitoring towards sustainable infrastructure systems

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Meyer

Gharaibeh

et al. 2018

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Climate change and increasing natural disasters coupled with years of deferred maintenance have added pressure to infrastructure in urban areas. Thus, monitoring for failure of these systems is crucial to prevent future impacts to life and property. Participatory assessment technique for infrastructure provides a community-based approach to assess the capacity and physical condition of infrastructure. Furthermore, a participatory assessment technique for infrastructure can encourage grassroots activism that engages residents, researchers, and planners in the identification of sustainable development concerns and solutions. As climate change impacts disproportionately affect historically disenfranchised communities, assessment data can further inform planning, aiming to balance the distribution of public resources towards sustainability and justice. This paper explains the development of the participatory assessment technique for infrastructure that can provide empirical data about the condition of infrastructure at the neighborhood-level, using stormwater systems in a vulnerable neighborhood in Houston, Texas as a case study. This paper argues for the opportunity of participatory methods to address needs in infrastructure assessment and describes the ongoing project testing the best use of these methods.

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Section: Environmental Justice and Sustainable Infrastructurementioning

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Section: Environmental Justice and Sustainable Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

The development of a participatory assessment technique for infrastructure: Neighborhood-level monitoring towards sustainable infrastructure systems

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Meyer

Gharaibeh

et al. 2018

Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…A vulnerability perspective has been shown to focus the attention of social research on the diversity within populations; concentrating on the broader social, cultural and economic factors that influence a community's vulnerability and moving focus away from a singular examination of the presence of hazards (Van Zandt et al, 2012). Vulnerability assessments are often the first step to identifying those groups in society who may require added assistance during an emergency (Blaikie et al, 1994;Morrow, 1999;Müller, Reiter, & Weiland, 2011).…”

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Mapping social vulnerability to flood hazard in Norfolk, England

Garbutt

Ellul

Fujiyama

2015

Environmental Hazards

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In this paper, we present a method to assess social vulnerability through the creation of an Open Source Vulnerability Index (OS-VI). The OS-VI provides context to environmental hazards and allows NGOs and local agencies to better tailor services and provide targeted preemptive vulnerability reduction and resilience-building programmes. A deductive indicatorbased approach is utilised to incorporate a wide range of vulnerability indicators known to influence vulnerability. Unlike many vulnerability indices, the OS-VI incorporates flood risk as well as the loss of capabilities and the importance of key services (health facilities and food stores) through the measurement of accessibility when determining an area's level of social vulnerability. The index was developed using open-source mapping and analysis software and is composed completely of open-source data from national data sets. The OS-VI was designed at the national level, with data for all proxy indicators available across the entirety of England and Wales. For this paper, a case study is presented concerned with one English county, Norfolk. Highlights• We produce an open-source vulnerability index.• Accessibility to health care found to be severely affected by flooding.• High vulnerability areas found to be disproportionately impacted by flooding.• Urban extent of an area found to increase its level of vulnerability.• Flood affected areas more likely to be composed of elderly, sick and poor.

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“…Racial groups are often neglected in post-disaster planning and recovery activities because they have less political representation and economic power (Van Zandt et al 2012). The body of literature on race is still growing in American urban planning, often related to major urban transformation challenges.…”

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What defines success when visions compete: lessons from post-Katrina New Orleans

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Weitkamp²

2017

International Planning Studies

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Visions can be valuable tools for guiding and uniting land use interests in a region with fragmented administration. What determines the strength of a vision and how can it effectively play its role? Our study tested and supplemented hypotheses on the success factors of visions. We chose a city in a rebuilding process because that represents a most intensive and pressing vision process. We interviewed local policy-makers, designers, researchers, and journalists to find out what they would spontaneously cite as a vision's most crucial factors. We also reviewed the subsequent New Orleans recovery plans and compared our findings with hypotheses from visioning literature. The interviewees' spontaneous answers largely confirm the key hypotheses about success from the visioning literature. However, the most frequently mentioned factors were not in the literature: a vision needs to be propagated by a powerful authority, a favourable larger political climate, and the funds to sustain the implementation process. For a vision to make a difference, it needs to be substantively relevant and persuasive but also have a favourable institutional climate to help it along.

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Mapping social vulnerability to enhance housing and neighborhood resilience

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The development of a participatory assessment technique for infrastructure: Neighborhood-level monitoring towards sustainable infrastructure systems

The development of a participatory assessment technique for infrastructure: Neighborhood-level monitoring towards sustainable infrastructure systems

Mapping social vulnerability to flood hazard in Norfolk, England

What defines success when visions compete: lessons from post-Katrina New Orleans

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