Understand risk and design strategies to mitigate future impacts
Hazard mitigation requires tools that can assess systemic risk and community vulnerability, design effective policies and risk reduction strategies, and engage the whole community. Using GIS helps communities prepare and adapt by mapping and analyzing hazards and demographics for a more equitable approach to resilience that can change future outcomes.
Mapping and visualizing hazards is only part of the equation. Using GIS to analyze demographic, economic, and climate data helps you assess and understand systemic risk, and highlights where to reduce the potential impacts of hazards on your critical assets and the people you serve to truly build resilience.
Designing risk reduction strategies that are inclusive of the whole community helps ensure that programs, policies, and strategies equitably target specific locations for more impactful outcomes. Using GIS to communicate with and hear directly from the community leads to a shared understanding of local needs that will enhance resilience.
Communicating complex information—like a household's risk and vulnerability—that affects individual behavior to build resilience requires context that only maps can provide. With GIS as the platform for communication, organizations can effectively inspire action by engaging the community and communicating risk reduction measures.
ESRI BLOG
To fix a flood-prone neighborhood, Dubuque planners use 3D GIS watershed models to capture infrastructure details.
ArcNews
The City of Miami has worked with Esri partner Jacobs, a technical consulting engineering firm, to minimize disruptions of sea level rise.
ESRI BLOG
Planners use GIS for scales of extreme heat exploration, from the micro to the macro, to know where to respond and to develop mitigation strategies.
CASE STUDY
Oregon Department of Emergency Management improved information sharing and decision-making processes, particularly during emergency events.
ESRI BLOG
A city gains better understanding of its streams through field data collection. Using data reduces costs and mitigates flood risks in high-risk areas.
ARCNEWS
Scientists at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) analyze current weather conditions to predict when avalanches are most likely to occur.
Explore ArcGIS Solutions and products to enhance disaster resilience for emergency and disaster management.
Combine demographic, lifestyle, and census data with map-based analytics to understand vulnerability and plan equitable mitigation projects.
Engage your community and organize people, data, and tools through information-driven initiatives that support your resilience-building efforts.
Combine your narrative with interactive maps and other multimedia content to communicate and engage stakeholders around resilience.
Support data visualization; advanced analysis; and data maintenance in 2D, 3D, and 4D to transform data into maps and actionable information.
Organize, share, and collaborate on resources and data in support of local hazard mitigation planning efforts using this template for ArcGIS Hub.
Develop localized flooding scenarios and visualize the impact of flooding on infrastructure, critical facilities, and vulnerable populations.
