Mapping Social Vulnerabilities to Enhance Resilience in Richmond
Differences in social vulnerability across Richmond meant that the city's resilience plan didn't work equally well for all neighborhoods. To enhance their plan, the city worked with partners to develop a novel tool—the Climate Equity Index—to document neighborhood vulnerability to climate impacts,
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Trisha Porter, MNR, SEA, and Annette Osso, LEED AP, Managing Director, Resilient Virginia.
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Richmond, VA Skyline, cropped, by Jc7792, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94551850
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23 April 2024 - 9:53am
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