NH34A:
Building Resilience to Natural Hazards by Utilizing Citizen Science and Understanding Compound Hazards


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Session ID#: 62945

Session Description:
Climate change and urbanization are probably the most important processes that shape our contemporary society. These two processes cause and exacerbate natural hazards via different mechanisms; their interactions further complicate hazard management. However, there is a significant gap in the literature regarding how climate change and urbanization interact with each other, to intensify or reduce natural hazards and beyond. Reducing risk to such hazards and building resilience is crucial. Combined with recent technological advances, a citizen science approach has emerged as a promising direction in the provision of extensive, real-time information in risk management, and can educate and empower communities that are bypassed by more traditional knowledge generation processes. This session invites contributions that advance our understanding of the different mechanisms by which climate change and urbanization change patterns of natural hazards, as well as approaches and outcomes of citizen science projects that improve resilience to these hazards worldwide.
Primary Convener:  Jonathan D. Paul, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Kangning Huang, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, United States, Jiayong Liang, Cloud to Street, New York, United States and Prof. David M. Hannah, PhD, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Kangning Huang, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, United States
Chairs:  Jonathan D. Paul, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom and Kangning Huang, Sen Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
OSPA Liaison:  Kangning Huang, Sen Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

4325 Megacities and urban environment [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4335 Disaster management [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4341 Early warning systems [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4352 Interaction between science and disaster management authorities [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Pervasive sensor networks for participatory flood forecasting (Invited) (354111)
Wouter Buytaert, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, SW7, United Kingdom and Landslide-EVO team
CrowdWater: Evaluation of the potential value of crowd-based streamflow and stream level classes observations for runoff modelling (449190)
Jan Seibert, Simon Etter, Barbara Strobl and Ilja H.J. van Meerveld, University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Zurich, Switzerland
MyShake – Smartphone seismic network for earthquake hazards mitigation (Invited) (357944)
Qingkai Kong, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Richard M Allen, Berkeley Seismology Lab, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Kaylin Rochford and Jennifer Ann Strauss, University of California, CA, United States
Enabling Citizen Science with the Natural Hazards Reconnaissance ("RAPID") Facility (455618)
Joseph Wartman, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Ann Bostrom, University of Washington - Seattle, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, Seattle, WA, United States, Scott Miles, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Human Centered Design and Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, Troy Tanner, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Jeffrey Berman, University of Washington Natural Hazards and Disaster Reconnaissance (RAPID) Facility, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States and Jake Dafni, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
A Flood Resilience Index for an urban area: assessment of climate change impact and adaptation strategies in Munich city (367105)
Kai-Feng Chen1, Jorge Eduardo Teixeira Leandro1, Stephan Pauleit2 and Markus Disse3, (1)Technical University of Munich, Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, Munich, Germany, (2)Technical University of Munich, Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Munich, Germany, (3)Technical University of Munich, Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, School of Engineering and Design, Munich, Germany
Urban Heat In The Future: A Scalable And Flexible System For Evaluating Changing Risks (445866)
Joshua Hacker1, Luke Madaus2, Julie Davis Pullen3, Stephan R Sain4, Joseph Pucciarelli5 and Patrick McDermott2, (1)Jupiter, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Jupiter, Boulder, United States, (3)Jupiter, New York, United States, (4)Jupiter Intelligence, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Escalating heat stress by mid-century from large-scale urban land expansion (351649)
Kangning Huang, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, United States

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