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Equitable Climate Resilience: A GIS Approach to Protecting Vulnerable Communities with NbS
Tuesday May 26, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am EDT
Room 174
Rapid urbanization and climate change are increasing exposure to environmental hazards in urban areas, including flooding, reduced air quality, water pollution, and urban heat island effects. Vulnerable communities, such as those with lower socioeconomic status, face greater risk due to limited adaptive capacity and exclusion from mitigation strategies. Historically, efforts addressing climate change have lacked equitable implementation. Nature-based Solutions (NbS), such as bioretention, urban tree canopy, and parks, offer low-cost, sustainable strategies to address environmental hazards. This research develops an equitable approach to NbS implementation in Providence, Rhode Island, scalable to major U.S. cities. Using GIS-based suitability analysis, it maps locations of need and opportunity based on various criteria and overlays results with a social vulnerability index. This research aims to identify priority sites in vulnerable neighborhoods to support equitable climate resilience.
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avatar for Cate Arnold

Cate Arnold

Graduate Student Research Assistant, University of Rhode Island
Cate Arnold is a graduate student obtaining her MS in Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Rhode Island. She specializes in Earth and Environmental Science and is pursuing graduate certificates in GIS & Remote Sensing and Coastal Resilience. As a Graduate Research... Read More →
Tuesday May 26, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am EDT
Room 174
  Climate Resilience

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