Climate-Related Hazards: A Method for Global Assessment of Urban and Rural Population Exposure to Cyclones, Droughts, and Floods

dc.contributor.authorChristenson, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorElliott, Mark
dc.contributor.authorBanerjee, Ovik
dc.contributor.authorHamrick, Laura
dc.contributor.authorBartram, Jamie
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of North Carolina
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hill
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-28T19:36:00Z
dc.date.available2023-09-28T19:36:00Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractGlobal climate change (GCC) has led to increased focus on the occurrence of, and preparation for, climate-related extremes and hazards. Population exposure, the relative likelihood that a person in a given location was exposed to a given hazard event(s) in a given period of time, was the outcome for this analysis. Our objectives were to develop a method for estimating the population exposure at the country level to the climate-related hazards cyclone, drought, and flood; develop a method that readily allows the addition of better datasets to an automated model; differentiate population exposure of urban and rural populations; and calculate and present the results of exposure scores and ranking of countries based on the country-wide, urban, and rural population exposures to cyclone, drought, and flood. Gridded global datasets on cyclone, drought and flood occurrence as well as population density were combined and analysis was carried out using ArcGIS. Results presented include global maps of ranked country-level population exposure to cyclone, drought, flood and multiple hazards. Analyses by geography and human development index (HDI) are also included. The results and analyses of this exposure assessment have implications for country-level adaptation. It can also be used to help prioritize aid decisions and allocation of adaptation resources between countries and within a country. This model is designed to allow flexibility in applying cyclone, drought and flood exposure to a range of outcomes and adaptation measures.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationChristenson, E., Elliott, M., Banerjee, O., Hamrick, L., & Bartram, J. (2014). Climate-Related Hazards: A Method for Global Assessment of Urban and Rural Population Exposure to Cyclones, Droughts, and Floods. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Vol. 11, Issue 2, pp. 2169–2192). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110202169
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph110202169
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-0612
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7307-4914
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6542-6315
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/11548
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjecthazard events
dc.subjectexposure
dc.subjectArcGIS
dc.subjecturban
dc.subjectrural
dc.subjectcyclone
dc.subjectdrought
dc.subjectflood
dc.subjectLANDSLIDE ACTIVITY
dc.subjectIMPACT
dc.subjectEnvironmental Sciences
dc.subjectPublic, Environmental & Occupational Health
dc.titleClimate-Related Hazards: A Method for Global Assessment of Urban and Rural Population Exposure to Cyclones, Droughts, and Floodsen_US
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