Description: Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) and other agencies in Texas utilize SocialVulnerability Indices (SVIs) for a variety of flood risk management purposes including,but not limited to, flood planning and allocation of flood mitigation funding. There are twowidely available sources of SVIs: first, the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) from theHazards and Vulnerability Institute at the University of South Carolina; second, the SVIcreated by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the Centers forDisease Control (CDC). Both are primarily used at the census tract scale and aredeveloped across the geographic domain of the United States. SoVI and SVI areagnostic to the type of hazard for which social vulnerability is being modeled. Althoughthese existing SVIs have a wide range of applicable uses, they are customized neitherfor flood hazard, nor for Texas.
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Copyright Text: R. Patrick Bixler¹
Paola Passalacqua²
Eric Tate³
Daniel F. Feldmeyer³
Sarah Traore¹
Tamar Farchy¹
Shelly Hoover³
1. LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
2. Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin
3. Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment, Princeton
University