Integrating a resilience scorecard and landscape performance tools into a Geodesign process

ABSTRACT

Uncertainty about the impacts of sea-level rise make the ability to forecast future spatial conditions a necessary planning/design tool. Geodesign integrates multiple fields of science with change/impact models and planning/design strategies. Proactive planning analyses such as newly developed scorecards allow for plan evaluation; design strategies can now be quantitatively assessed using landscape performance calculators. Neither have been explored as Geodesign tools. A Geodesign process was developed using the resilience scorecard to assess flood vulnerability using projections for the 100-year floodplain with sea-level rise by 2100. Projections were used as a guide to develop a resilient master plan for League City, TX, USA. Future impacts of the plan are projected using landscape performance measures.

KEYWORDS:

• Geodesign
• resilience
• landscape performance
• geographic information systems
• hazard vulnerability

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Funding

This work was supported from the National Science Foundation’s Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) Program [#1545837, 2015-2020]National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [1P42ES027704-01].