{"id":9249,"date":"2020-01-29T10:40:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T15:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2020-01-30T10:44:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T15:44:29","slug":"measuring-climate-and-extreme-weather-vulnerability-to-inform-resilience-report-1-a-pilot-study-for-north-atlantic-medium-and-high-use-maritime-freight-nodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2020\/01\/29\/measuring-climate-and-extreme-weather-vulnerability-to-inform-resilience-report-1-a-pilot-study-for-north-atlantic-medium-and-high-use-maritime-freight-nodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Climate and Extreme Weather Vulnerability to Inform Resilience, Report 1: A Pilot Study for North Atlantic Medium- and High-Use Maritime Freight Nodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By R. Duncan McIntosh, Elizabeth L. Mclean, and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/meet\/austin-becker\/\">Austin Becker<\/a><br \/>\nThis research identified vulnerability indicators from open-data sources that represent the three components of vulnerability, as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. With input from experts knowledgeable in port operations, planning, policy, and data, researchers refined a set of high-level vulnerability indicators to answer the following key questions: (1) how sufficient is the current state of U.S. seaport sector data for developing expert-supported vulnerability indicators for a regional sample of ports and (2) how can indicators be used to measure the relative vulnerability (i.e., exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity) of multiple ports? Using open-data sources, this study developed an Indicator-Based Vulnerability Assessment methodology that integrates multiple vulnerability indicators for ports in the North Atlantic region. The Analytic Hierarchy Process, a technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions using pairwise comparisons, was used to develop a ranking that matched 3 of the top-4 most vulnerable ports that were subjectively identified by port experts. This demonstrates a strong promise for this methodological approach to measure seaport vulnerability to climate and extreme weather events. Indices of seaport relative vulnerability to climate and extreme weather can advance goals for a resilient Marine Transportation System by informing efforts and plans to prioritize and allocate limited resources.<\/p>\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.21079\/11681\/35196\" title=\"\">Read More<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By R. Duncan McIntosh, Elizabeth L. Mclean, and Austin Becker <\/br><br \/>\nThis research identified vulnerability indicators from open-data sources that represent the three components of vulnerability, as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[156,168],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-9249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adaptation","category-ports","tag-austin-becker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9252,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions\/9252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}