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Coping with Climate Change: The Role of Spatial Decision Support Tools in Facilating Community Adaptation

Description

Climate change challenges communities to visualize spatial patterns of risk, assess their vulnerability to those risks, and prepare adaptation plans to lower vulnerability. This report describes a prototype web-based spatial decision support system (SDSS), referred to as the Community Adaptation Viewer (CAV), to assist adaptation planning. Thin-client, Javascript enabled web-SDSS software was constructed to allow interaction with urban infrastructure, and support "on-the-fly" assessment of social and economic vulnerability.

Reference information

Source:
Report on general use of GIS and SDSS in adaptation decision-making.

Published in Climate-ADAPT Feb 07 2018   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12 2023

Reviewed by:

Ana Ferrada Gomes

Date of publication:

2013

Keywords:

GIS, SDSS, decision-making support, mapping, visualisation

Climate impacts:

Non specific

Adaptation elements:

Vulnerability Assessment

Sectors:

Urban

Geographic characterisation:

Global

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