United States of America

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This scoping review aims to address both issues by summarizing and evaluating the social impact of the American Red Cross (ARC’s) national disaster interventions.
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This study informs NYC’s residents of their current and future flood risk and enables the development of tailored solutions to manage increasing flood risk in the city.
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The authors wanted to determine whether crowd-sourced interpretations of Earth observation (EO) data can be used to illuminate key economic behavioral responses that could be used for computable general equilibrium modeling.
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This study seeks to evaluate the procedures and decisions made by electric utilities during Winter Storm Uri, and provide a set of recommendations to improve the resilience of energy systems in preparation for future extreme weather events.
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In this paper, the authors estimate county-level variations in older populations’ heat exposure in the early (1995–2014) and mid (2050) 21st century in the United States of America.
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Using a new composite climate-risk index, this study shows that population in high-risk counties in the United States has grown disproportionately over the last few decades, even relative to the corresponding commuting zone.
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This study uses a crowd-sourced municipal call database to characterize the spatial distribution of floodrisk in Detroit, MI. Call data including dates and addresses were obtained from the City of Detroit Department of Public Works for 2021.
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This paper evaluates the hypothesis that more economically and socially vulnerable communities experience longer-duration power outages following hurricanes than less vulnerable communities do, conditional on the severity of the impact of the storm itself

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