Matt Huddleston is a Senior Climate Resilience Consultant at Resilient Analytics. He leads the energy and climate risk analysis focus for Resilient Analytics. Matt specializes in building system modeling for the built environment and has developed groundbreaking models that study internal building conditions under climate change. He has extensive experience in the use of climate model projection data and has overseen vulnerability and adaptation studies for clients in the public, private, and academic sectors. He has led the development of several new and innovative analytical capabilities for RA, many of which have been published in peer reviewed academic literature. Matt is a registered Professional Engineer in Washington, DC and received his bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Pittsburgh
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Analytics for Local Scale Climate Resilience Planning and Implementation
Building community resilience to climate change requires a holistic approach that includes preparation for projected events, investment in risk mitigation, and implementation of adaptation strategies. However, resiliency strategies cannot be one-size-fits-all. Rather, determination of where to focus resiliency efforts requires an understanding of local climate projection data as well as the adaptive capacity of human and social systems at both the macro city level and the micro neighborhood, street, and even household levels. Any given neighborhood has a unique starting point in terms of its capacity for change and adaptation. Social issues such as socio-economic levels, language barriers, and historic inequities all serve to hinder adaptive capacity. Physical attributes such as tree canopy, permeable surfaces, and building density also contribute to the vulnerability of individual communities.In this session, we present a localized, equity-based, approach to climate resilience based on analytical community planning. The analytics-based approach guides resiliency efforts from exploratory risk investigation through strategy development and ultimately through implementation. This novel approach pairs adaptative capacity assessment with a scenario analysis of climate projection data to deliver a quantified understanding of risk and the associated adaptation costs.
This session will demonstrate how a new approach can assist officials to develop resiliency measures that move beyond broad climate plans and towards localized, equitable, actions that improve the current conditions of communities and prepare neighborhoods for future climate conditions.