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Climate Change Risk and Vulnerability: An Initial Assessment for Villanova University for Improved Resilience.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Climate Change Risk and Vulnerability: An Initial Assessment for Villanova University for Improved Resilience./
作者:	Gray-DeKraai, Jordan Roselle.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	168 p.
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-07.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International83-07.
標題:	Climate change. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28714063
ISBN:	9798759994107

Climate Change Risk and Vulnerability: An Initial Assessment for Villanova University for Improved Resilience.
Gray-DeKraai, Jordan Roselle.

Climate Change Risk and Vulnerability: An Initial Assessment for Villanova University for Improved Resilience. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 168 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-07.

Thesis (M.Sc.S.E.)--Villanova University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Climate is changing faster than any other time in modern history, and the impacts of a changing climate are felt more directly and intensely at the local level. Villanova University will be affected by climate change impacts and would benefit from a methodology to assess specific climate-related risks and vulnerabilities. Villanova University will experience warmer and wetter climate conditions in the future, which will have implications for everyday life on campus. Villanova University has created a Sustainability Plan with goals and objectives in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Through this plan, Villanova University has committed to developing a climate change and disaster resilience strategy. This study aims to develop a framework to build this strategy for Villanova by identifying local climate hazards and conducting a risk and vulnerability assessment for Villanova's campus. This climate change and disaster resilience strategy framework was modified from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) United States Climate Resilience Toolkit and incorporated additional elements from leading global and local resilience frameworks. Exposure from climate hazards was quantified through downscaled Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) climate data for historical and projected climate for the Villanova University area. The risk and vulnerability assessment was conducted through a series of 30 stakeholder interviews from a broad array of Villanova's faculty and staff, designed to identify implications for Villanova's critical assets. An initial list of assets and stakeholders was identified through the Villanova University Sustainability Manager, and additional assets were added throughout the stakeholder interviews. Each stakeholder was presented with consistent climate data and was asked a consistent set of questions to answer. Through these interviews and additional research, each implication was assigned a climate exposure, vulnerability, and resilience score to calculate the overall risk to Villanova by dividing the product of exposure and vulnerability by resilience. A separate rubric was designed for each element with a consistent scale of 1 to 5. The resulting risk calculations show that Villanova will be most strongly impacted by extreme heat and precipitation. The most significant risks to Villanova's campus and community include infrastructure damage from flooding and heat-related illnesses from extreme heat events. Overall, climate risks to Villanova are likely to be low to moderate in severity. This study produced a framework for Villanova to create and implement a climate change and disaster resilience strategy and completed the first two steps within this framework (exploring climate hazards and conducting a risk and vulnerability assessment).

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