HGBEnviroScreen: Enabling Community Action through Data Integration in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Region.

ABSTRACT: The Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (HGB) region faces numerous environmental and public health challenges from both natural disasters and industrial activity, but the historically disadvantaged communities most often impacted by such risks have limited ability to access and utilize big data for advocacy efforts. We developed HGBEnviroScreen to identify and prioritize regions of heightened vulnerability, in part to assist communities in understanding risk factors and developing environmental justice action plans. While similar in objectives to existing environmental justice tools, HGBEnviroScreen is unique in its ability to integrate and visualize national and local data to address regional concerns. For the 1090 census tracts in the HGB region, we accrued data into five domains: (i) social vul

SUBMITTER: Bhandari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7068489 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature