Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Enes Yildirim, Craig Just, Ibrahim Demir
Summary: Flood risk assessment plays an important role in identifying at-risk communities and supporting mitigation decisions. This study conducted a large-scale flood risk assessment in various communities in Iowa, using extensive flood maps and parcel datasets. The results highlight the higher risk of direct flood losses in eastern Iowa communities and propose a flood risk score methodology for prioritizing mitigation efforts.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2022)
Article
Oceanography
Mark Ching-Pong Poo, Zaili Yang, Delia Dimitriu, Zhuohua Qu, Zhihong Jin, Xuehao Feng
Summary: This paper develops a Climate Change Risk Indicator (CCRI) framework for climate risk assessment of seaports and highlights the importance of climate change adaptation due to increasing extreme weather events. The study uses Evidence Reasoning (ER) to evaluate climate risks in seaports and provides a new climate risk analysis framework for comparing risks in different locations and timeframes, identifying suitable adaptation measures for rational policy making.
OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Development Studies
John Beirne, Nuobu Renzhi, Ulrich Volz
Summary: Climate change has a significant impact on sovereign risk in Southeast Asian countries, with greater climate vulnerability having a positive effect on sovereign bond yields, while higher resilience to climate change has an offsetting effect. Higher debt costs hinder necessary investments in public infrastructure and climate adaptation, increasing the risk of debt sustainability issues and dampening the development prospects of Southeast Asian countries.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Johanna E. Johnson, David J. Welch, Ruben van Hooidonk, Dieter Tracey, Ganesha Chandrasa, Bianca Molinari, Deti Triani, Casandra Tania, Handoko Susanto
Summary: The Arafura and Timor Seas region, shared by Indonesia, Timor Leste, Australia, and Papua New Guinea (PNG), is currently facing multiple pressures due to high coastal population densities, degraded habitats, overexploited fisheries, low profile coasts, shallow continental shelves and macro-tidal conditions. Climate change is expected to exacerbate these pressures and have profound effects on coastal and marine environments, including the vulnerable status and distribution of coral reefs, seagrass meadows, and mangrove habitats. Species vulnerability, driven by overfishing and limited management, as well as non-climate pressures such as habitat decline and illegal fishing, further contribute to the overall vulnerability of the region. Strategic recommendations are provided to minimize climate change vulnerability and protect priority species and habitats.
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Natalie Teale, Steven M. Quiring
Summary: Climatologists have collaborated with a Fortune 500 company to assess the physical risks of climate change to their facilities, and provided a climate change report card template to help communicate risk to company leadership and facility managers.
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Adele M. Dixon, Piers M. Forster, Maria Beger
Summary: Climate-driven changes are causing severe declines in coral reef ecosystems. Current vulnerability assessments need to include more accurate climate projections and consider a wider range of climate variables to quantify the ecological sensitivity and adaptive capacity of corals. This framework can help reduce uncertainty in projected climate vulnerability and guide targeted investment in managing coral reefs.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Geeta G. Persad, Bjorn H. Samset, Laura J. Wilcox
Summary: The article points out that estimates of regional change and climate extremes risks often overlook a significant player.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Firas Gerges, Hani Nassif, Xiaolong Geng, Holly A. Michael, Michel C. Boufadel
Summary: Community resilience refers to a community's ability to survive and recover after a disaster, and evaluating resilience indices have limitations. This study utilized a Community Intrinsic Resilience Index (CIRI) to assess the resilience levels of counties in New Jersey, with results showing CIRI ranging from 63% to 80%. In the event of a flood disaster, two coastal counties were shown to have low CIRI values.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Asif Ishtiaque, Ronald C. Estoque, Hallie Eakin, Jagadish Parajuli, Yasin Wahid Rabby
Summary: This paper identifies the reasons for the low adoption of the AR5 conceptualization in climate change vulnerability assessments and calls for clarification from the IPCC. It suggests treating "exposure" not only as a precondition for vulnerability, but also as a secondary driver to capture the influence of differential exposure.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Economics
Serhan Cevik, Joao Tovar Jalles
Summary: This paper examines the relationship between climate change and income inequality and finds that increased climate change vulnerability is associated with rising income inequality. Interestingly, the impact of climate change on income inequality differs between advanced economies and developing countries, with the latter experiencing a significantly greater effect due to weaker capacity for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, G. M. Monirul Alam, R. B. Radin Firdaus, Jatish Chandra Biswas, Abu Reza Md Towfiqul Islam, Md Lamiur Raihan, Toshihiro Hattori, Khorshed Alam, Niraj Prakash Joshi, Rajib Shaw
Summary: The study assesses the vulnerability level of riverine island dwellers to flooding in Bangladesh and finds that all households are vulnerable to flooding. Factors such as flood perception, damage, and access to resources during flooding determine the flood vulnerability. The study suggests that a char-based policy plan is needed to decrease the livelihood risk and promote resilience of the char dwellers.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Samuel Eberenz, Samuel Luethi, David N. Bresch
Summary: Assessing tropical cyclone risk globally with a single impact function calibrated for the USA can lead to significant biases in simulated damage, highlighting the importance of considering regional vulnerabilities. This study proposes a calibrated model to assess tropical cyclone risk in different regions by fitting impact functions based on reported damage data. Applying this methodology, global annual average direct damage caused by tropical cyclones ranges from USD 51 to USD 121 billion, with the West Pacific basin having the largest uncertainties.
NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Firas Gerges, Rayan H. Assaad, Hani Nassif, Elie Bou-Zeid, Michel C. Boufadel
Summary: The resilience of communities has become a major goal in policy and practice, with laws requiring climate-related hazard vulnerability assessments in master plan updates. Quantifying community resilience is crucial to measure preparedness and enhance capacity to endure disasters. Two approaches, community and infrastructure resilience, are being pursued, and a hybrid approach combining both is proposed.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
P. Grace Tee Lewis, Weihsueh A. Chiu, Ellu Nasser, Jeremy Proville, Aurora Barone, Cloelle Danforth, Bumsik Kim, Jolanda Prozzi, Elena Craft
Summary: Climate change will lead to a range of risks, including increased disease, social and economic stresses, and extreme weather events. Vulnerable groups will be disproportionately affected due to their greater exposure and lower ability to cope with these risks. Understanding the intersection of vulnerability and climate change is essential for building resilience and targeted adaptation efforts.
ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Matthias Garschagen, Deepal Doshi, Jonathan Reith, Michael Hagenlocher
Summary: Global climate and disaster risk indices have gained popularity in both scientific and international climate policy arenas, but there is significant variation in results regarding countries' risk levels and related factors.
Review
Biology
Igor Yakymenko, Olexandr Tsybulin, Evgeniy Sidorik, Diane Henshel, Olga Kyrylenko, Sergiy Kyrylenko
ELECTROMAGNETIC BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
(2016)
Editorial Material
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Samuel J. Childs, Mariana G. Cains, Faith P. Groff
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mariana Goodall Cains, Diane Henshel
Summary: The challenge of risk, vulnerability, and resilience assessment lies in understanding the complexities of socioecological systems, incorporating not only natural and imposed boundaries but also the interactions between social and ecological components. Traditional risk assessment simplifies complex problems to quantify the effects of stressors, while integrated risk and resilience assessment focuses on solution-based evaluations and includes adaptive management practices as part of system resilience. The Multilevel Risk and Resilience Assessment Parameterization framework provides a systematic way to break down management objectives and goals into quantifiable risk and resilience measurement metrics for a more comprehensive analysis of complex systems.
INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Mariana G. Cains, Liberty Flora, Danica Taber, Zoe King, Diane S. Henshel
Summary: This study utilized expert elicitation methods to define cyber security and cyber security risk, identifying key themes through data-driven thematic analysis and visualizing the interconnected themes using network analysis. The most salient themes for cyber security were context-driven, resilient system functionality, and maintenance of CIA, while for cyber security risk, the impacts of CIA vulnerabilities, probabilities of outcomes, and context-driven were highlighted. The process aimed to develop comprehensive definitions that encompassed contextual frameworks of all disciplines and explicitly incorporated human factors as significant cyber security risk factors.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Alexandra M. Frank, Mariana G. Cains, Diane S. Henshel
Summary: Climate change is leading to increased coastal temperatures and stronger storm-induced flooding, increasing the risk of Vibrio infections. Risk model analysis shows that coastal block groups with dense and vulnerable populations have the highest exposure risk to storm surge flooding.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ann Bostrom, Julie L. Demuth, Christopher D. Wirz, Mariana G. Cains, Andrea Schumacher, Deianna Madlambayan, Akansha Singh Bansal, Angela Bearth, Randy Chase, Katherine M. Crosman, Imme Ebert-Uphoff, David John Gagne, Seth Guikema, Robert Hoffman, Branden B. Johnson, Christina Kumler-Bonfanti, John D. Lee, Anna Lowe, Amy McGovern, Vanessa Przybylo, Jacob T. Radford, Emilie Roth, Carly Sutter, Philippe Tissot, Paul Roebber, Jebb Q. Stewart, Miranda White, John K. Williams
Summary: The demands for managing the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) are increasing, and in response, a convergent approach is taken to review and synthesize research on the trust and trustworthiness of AI in the environmental sciences. The importance of engaging AI users and stakeholders, as well as reconciling performance-based standards with contextual notions of trust, is highlighted.
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Zoe M. King, Diane S. Henshel, Liberty Flora, Mariana G. Cains, Blaine Hoffman, Char Sample
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2018)
Proceedings Paper
Telecommunications
Diane S. Henshel, Gary M. Deckard, Brad Lufkin, Norbou Buchler, Blaine Hoffman, Prashanth Rajivan, Steve Collman
MILCOM 2016 - 2016 IEEE MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE
(2016)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Information Systems
Diane Henshel, Alexander Alexeev, Mariana Cains, Jeff Rowe, Hasan Cam, Blaine Hoffman, Iulian Neamtiu
2016 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGIES FOR HOMELAND SECURITY (HST)
(2016)
Proceedings Paper
Behavioral Sciences
D. Henshel, M. G. Cains, B. Hoffman, T. Kelley
6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS (AHFE 2015) AND THE AFFILIATED CONFERENCES, AHFE 2015
(2015)
