What we did
Both TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) and Chattanooga were interested in gaining an understanding of the geographic distribution of climate hazards in their community, in particular heat and flooding, as well as understanding which areas may feature high social vulnerability and disadvantage to prioritize investments. A two pronged approach was settled on where Chattanooga would guide the work being done and ground truth the results of the GIS analysis while receiving custom maps. The data layers developed in this process would also cover the entire TVA region and allow for the TVA to share this data with communities across the region who could look to Chattanooga for examples on how to use this information to increase resilience.
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