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

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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

Websites:

arcgis.mta.ca/toolkit/reports/ENVSOFT-D-14-00439_(EmbeddedFigs).pdf

Source:

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

Published in Climate-ADAPT: Feb 7, 2018

Date of publication:

2013

Keywords:

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

Climate impacts:

Non specific

Adaptation Approaches:

Vulnerability Assessment

Sectors:

Urban

Geographic characterisation:

Global

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