ASTM International’s Post

Summarizing over 100 existing mapping and screening tools, a new standard guide is helping stakeholders quantify and measure impacts of climate at the local level. The subcommittee on climate and community (E50.07), part of the committee on environmental assessment, risk management and corrective action (E50), has proposed the guide. “We're increasingly seeing the effects of climate change on communities,” says Dr. Stephanie Fiorenza, an environmental remediation expert in Houston, TX and E50’s first vice chair. “This particular standard guide was developed because there are a lot of online mapping tools that people can use, especially those aimed at communities, to try and look at what kinds of climate risks might be in front of them. But while they seem easy to use, they rely on different sources of information and are queried differently, so you have to be a more sophisticated user to get value from them. We developed this guide to try to help people become educated users of these types of tools.” Learn more at https://lnkd.in/e7fMhxrS #climate #climatechange #environment #riskmanagement