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Leveraging the American Housing Survey to Quantify Risk and Resilience.

Kendrick Hardaway^1,2, Kelsea Best^3,4, Benjamin Rachunok^5,6

¹Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Urban resilience planning requires better data. The American Housing Survey (AHS) offers a valuable, underutilized dataset for quantifying risks and improving urban resilience against natural hazards.

Keywords:

big data climate change community resilience housing natural hazards risk

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Urban resilience and risk science
Quantitative analysis of urban environments

Background:

Urbanization and climate change increase natural hazard risks in cities.
Quantifying urban resilience metrics for planning is challenging due to data limitations.
A need exists for broadly applicable, detailed, and large-scale datasets in urban resilience research.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce the U.S. Census Bureau's American Housing Survey (AHS) as a valuable resource for risk science.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the AHS for urban resilience research.
Demonstrate practical applications of the AHS for enhancing urban resilience.

Main Methods:

Utilized predictive modeling and multiple dimension reduction techniques.
Analyzed spatial and temporal trends within and between cities using AHS data.
Investigated relationships between socio-demographic and built environment variables.

Main Results:

The AHS provides a rich, longitudinal dataset suitable for cross-city comparisons.
Demonstrated the utility of AHS variables for anticipating hazard consequences and perceived risk.
Highlighted the AHS's applicability across diverse climatic regions.

Conclusions:

The American Housing Survey (AHS) is a powerful, underutilized dataset for advancing urban resilience research.
AHS data can significantly improve quantitative risk assessment and planning for natural hazards.
Researchers can leverage AHS to build more resilient urban futures.