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Climate Vulnerability Analysis

Dekalb County, Georgia

Our project's purpose is to analyze the climate and social vulnerabilities within DeKalb County, Georgia. Provided in this website are the details of our analyses and solutions to the vulnerabilities we found. 

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Our Methods

Following the core foundation of the Serve-Learn-Sustain program at Georgia Tech, our project's recommendations are centered around the 17 Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) according to the United Nations. More about the incorporation of the SDG into our methods can be found by clicking the image below:

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Mapping

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Click the image above to view and learn more about the Geographic Information System (GIS) maps we used for our analyses.

Our findings

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Teams

Instructors and Partners

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Dr. Rebecca Watts Hull
Service Learning and Partnerships Specialist
Academic Professional at Georgia Tech

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Dr. Jairo Garcia
CEO of Urban Climate Nexus
Sustainability Professor at Georgia Tech

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Laura Diez
Former DeKalb County Sustainability Coordinator
Climate Communicator

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Ramachandra Sivakumar
Senior Research Engineer, Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization

Public Communications

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Isabella Mirabile
4th Year Industrial Engineering
Sustainable Cities

Lauren Riehm
3rd Year Architecture
Sustainable Cities

SocioEconomic

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Kayley Beard
3rd Year Architecture
Sustainable Cities

Fatima Jarquin
2nd Year Architecture
Sustainable Cities

Environmental

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Brooke Bergstrom
3rd Year Civil Engineering
Sustainable Cities

Juliette Goff
2nd Year Environmental Engineering
Sustainable Cities

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sustainable cities capstone 

summer 2021

Find a link to a presentation of this project here 

Contact us

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA

Dr. Garcia's email: jairo.garcia@design.gatech.edu

Sustainable Cities Capstone Summer 2021

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