{"id":5092,"date":"2015-06-09T07:51:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T14:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2015-06-09T07:51:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T14:51:24","slug":"mobilizing-gis-to-boost-climate-resilience","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/mobilizing-gis-to-boost-climate-resilience","title":{"rendered":"Mobilizing GIS to Boost Climate Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>How understanding the geography of climate change protects your health<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong>From droughts and tsunamis to heat waves and earthquakes, extreme weather and geologic events caused by climate change jeopardize the world\u2019s infrastructure and resources. Will your health be next?<br \/>\nThe health risks associated with climate change are already evident. For example, over the past three decades, the percentage of Americans with asthma has more than doubled. Understanding the geography of climate change is critical to mitigating detrimental health effects and creating a vibrant and sustainable future.<br \/>\nEsri is committed to helping communities work smarter to become more livable and, as a result, more resilient to climate change. That\u2019s why Esri supports the White House Climate Data Initiative. By unleashing the power of GIS to build more resilient communities, people can better analyze and visualize data to understand and reduce these impacts.<!--more--><br \/>\nHear from Esri\u2019s health and human services experts why America must take action now to protect generations to come\u2013and how you can help:<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5094\" style=\"width: 959px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/videoembed.esri.com\/iframe\/4553\/000000\/width\/960\/0\/00:00:00\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5094 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/06\/vid1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"536\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esri chief medical officer Dr. Este Geraghty weighs in on how GIS can increase climate resilience.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5097\" style=\"width: 958px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/videoembed.esri.com\/iframe\/4552\/000000\/width\/960\/0\/00:00:00\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5097  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/06\/vid2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"958\" height=\"539\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esri health and human services specialist Angelica Baltazar details GIS solutions for protecting vulnerable populations from climate change.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nVisit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/industries\/government\/resilient-communities\">esri.com\/resilientcommunities<\/a> to learn more about Esri\u2019s efforts to enhance climate resilience, including the launch of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/landing-pages\/industries\/health\/climate-change-app-challenge\">Esri Human Health and Climate Change App Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10862],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5092","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mobilizing GIS to Boost Climate Resilience<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/mobilizing-gis-to-boost-climate-resilience\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mobilizing GIS to Boost Climate Resilience\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How understanding the geography of climate change protects your health From droughts and tsunamis to heat waves and earthquakes, extreme weather and geologic events caused by climate change jeopardize the world\u2019s infrastructure and resources. 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