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City Boundaries |
Data Processing |
Impact Charts |
Refinements
Disaster recovery research defines "mobility resiliency" as a measurement of how fast travel patterns return to "normal" following a disaster. Given that "normal" behavior can create unsafe conditions for individuals and negative impacts on the environment, incorporating environmental and health indicators into the study of mobility resiliency could help foster environmentally-friendly patterns of travel, sustainable material management, and increased clean energy use following disasters.
As communities strive to retain the benefits of new norms that emerge following disasters,
opportunities exist to transition toward net positive environmental and societal outcomes,
including increased local travel and the growth of local supply chains for agriculture and manufacturing.
By tracking changes in local industry input-output, jobs and energy production, this study will seek to identify shifts toward environmentally-friendly industries in communities that are recovering from disasters. Using the US EPA's Environmentally-Extended Input-Output (USEEIO) model, this study will combine 24 environmental and health indicators with 380+ industry sectors tracked by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). - Loren Heyns, Georgia Tech