A Hazard vulnerability assessment and climatology for the State of Ohio from 1960-2016.

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Title: A Hazard vulnerability assessment and climatology for the State of Ohio from 1960-2016.
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Subject: Hazard mitigation--Ohio.
Description: Hazard mitigation has been an increasing field of importance, especially for those who work in public safety. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the risks associated with natural hazards that are frequently observed. The goal for this project is to create an original methodology for determining natural hazard vulnerability by combining methods for determining environmental and social vulnerability mentioned in the literature. The information learned from the literature was then applied to data extracted from the Spatial Hazards Events and Losses Dataset (SHELDUS) from the University of South Carolina. These data will then be used to analyze different trends of hazard occurrences within the dataset and to also determine where the area(s) of greatest vulnerability existed within the state of Ohio from 1960-2016. The data will also be aggregated into 30-year climatological periods; 1960-1989, 1970-1999, 1980-2009, 1987-2016 to identify any existing trends within the dataset in regard to vulnerability. Visuals that did not exhibit spatial trends were tested using the Moran's I test to determine how randomly the data were distributed. For those that were tested, all except one showed a random distribution, meaning no one region had the highest vulnerability to a specific hazard. While there appeared to be spatial trends within the individual hazards and their occurrences, the main finding was that only one county in the state of Ohio showed consistent vulnerability, Cuyahoga County, receiving the highest score possible., Honors Thesis Advisor : Dr. Chad Kauffman.
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Contributor: Andresen, Adam. (Author), California University of Pennsylvania. Honors Program.
Date: 2018-04-10
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Identifier: cali:763
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