{"id":556402,"date":"2025-01-15T15:53:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/blog\/?post_type=blog&p=556402"},"modified":"2025-01-15T15:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:58:41","slug":"how-will-science-fiction-portray-your-city-mapping-our-way-to-a-climate-smart-future-with-gis","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/blog\/articles\/how-will-science-fiction-portray-your-city-mapping-our-way-to-a-climate-smart-future-with-gis","title":{"rendered":"How Will Science Fiction Portray Your City? Mapping our way to a climate-smart future with GIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2025, a teenage girl named Lauren Olamina leverages her geography skills to escape fires raging in her suburban Los Angeles neighborhood, exacerbated by climate change, social upheaval and economic instability.

I didn\u2019t read this in the news. She did not go viral on social media. She is a character in a science fiction novel written in the 90\u2019s by Octavia Butler.

But she is all of us.

Spoiler alert…she doesn\u2019t escape. She goes on, rather, to settle a small community that adapts<\/em>.

This too will be all of us, or more specifically, could<\/em> be all of us. We have choices to make, and we have tools to help us know how to make them.

I don\u2019t know if Butler knew about GIS in the 90\u2019s when she wrote her two Parable<\/em> novels, but just east of Los Angeles in Redlands, California, Esri was well underway as a growing company whose values centered on building geographic tools to empower our communities to reveal actionable insights in how we plan the business of living.

On a visit to Esri\u2019s headquarters a few years ago, I spent some quiet time in our library on campus. In the library exists binders stuffed with the agendas and proceedings of every Esri User Conference we have ever had. I pulled the binder of my birth year and skimmed the contents.

What struck me was that our message has not wavered in all those years. GIS reveals and untangles the complexity of interplay between our economic systems, social systems and environmental systems. Armed with that ability, GIS also allows us to virtually \u201cpluck\u201d on the strings of these systems and predict scenarios before we experience them in real life.<\/p>\n\n

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Kongjiang Yu\u2019s sponge city concept<\/a> brings together art and science to store stormwater rather than channel it away, which improves ecological health and aesthetic appeal in urban areas. For example, Benjakitti Park is a public park in Central Bangkok that intercepts rainstorms and reduces their destructive power. (Photo \u00a9Turenscape)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

What happened in Los Angeles was predicted. What happened in Asheville with Helene was predicted. We can also predict that climate impacts will be experienced everywhere, in different ways and to varying severity, and craft plans to help us mitigate and adapt to those predictable scenarios.

Prediction and time travel are two enticing themes we see in storytelling over and over again, especially in science fiction. It pulls deeply on the human desire to avoid terrible things and warn our future selves.

GIS is not science fiction, and yet it allows us to both make predictions and to time travel\u2026 to examine the patterns of the past and present that allow us to peer into our future and shape that future with greater wisdom and insight. It is real, it is has been here for a long time, and organizations of all kinds all over the world are embracing it for climate action planning.

But planning is not enough. How many times, post-disaster, do we read stories about how we had a plan for this, but we simply failed to implement it? We must implement those actions and make them systemic in how we conduct our everyday business of living and decision-making. I\u2019m heartened to know that communities are using GIS to do that too and I\u2019ve asked my colleagues to share those examples with me.

I am no Octavia Butler, but if this blog inspires communities to see a vision of themselves as they could be \u2013 and to make the choice<\/em> to implement their GIS investment holistically, and to operationalize climate action plans into the everyday business of living\u2026 it will be a success.

I am often asked by other customers to point to that singular customer who is the shining example of what a \u201cperfect\u201d GIS implementation looks like. I always tell them that the race for that title is still ongoing, and they have a chance to be that customer! For a little inspiration, we can certainly pull examples. It is in that spirit that I share the following. Below are some case studies that touch on how different aspects of government have leveraged their GIS investment to transform their business practices for a more resilient and sustainable future. While each of these stories are very real, perhaps we can take a moment to be a sci-fi writer and imagine these stories as coming from a single city\u2026 our city\u2026 our future.<\/p>\n\n

The City of the Future: Case studies<\/h2>\n\n

LAND RECORDS
\u201cWhen the wildfires hit, the critical nature of parcel data immediately became clear. Recovery would be impossible without it,\u201d is a quote from this case study, Navigating Parcel Migration Amid Maui\u2019s Wildfire Aftermath<\/a>. What do land records have to do with implementing climate action plans? If communities are to adapt to a future we can predict, then it starts at the ground-level \u2013 the basic units of how government organizes the landscape: Parcels. Modernizing our business systems and workflows into modern GIS is an act of sustainability in and of itself\u2026 positioning governments to gain greater insight and respond more quickly during extreme scenarios, and even attribute climate risk down to the parcel level like many cities have done with Esri Business Partner Fernleaf\u2019s AccelAdapt.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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The County of Maui\u2019s tax parcel viewer displaying all mapped parcels for the entire island.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

TRANSPORTATION 
The impact to roads in Western North Carolina, resulting from Hurricane Helene, continues to have a major impact on traffic here. As I write this, I-40 is still closed for repairs while new sections collapse. A major cut-through in Asheville is completely gone, resulting in crippling rush-hour traffic and major economic centers isolated from communities that need them. Transportation agencies have a massive role to play in developing a climate-smart community. Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) is a great example<\/a> of how GIS allows them to operationalize climate scenarios into their planning and design processes \u2013 allowing them to make justifiable and defensible decisions that reduce costs while ensuring more sustainable and equitable outcomes well into the future.<\/p>\n\n

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The MDOT State Highway Administration (SHA) Climate Change Vulnerability Viewer (CCVV) is a support tool designed for MDOT SHA senior managers and planners, along with other state transportation agencies, including metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), municipalities, and local transportation partners. The CCVV is an ArcGIS Online web application that showcases geospatial data products related to climate change. In particular, it shows sea-level changes and the potential effects on the State of Maryland’s transportation infrastructure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

PUBLIC WORKS 
Perhaps one of the ripest opportunities for visionary leadership is within public works departments. Take, for example, this story from the City of Miami Beach. With so much focus on resisting the inevitable impacts of climate change, the city is positioned instead to take advantage of certain aspects.  
\u201cAs sea levels rise and saltwater pushes up, there\u2019s a layer [lens] of freshwater between the surface of the land and the saltwater,\u201d explained Coley. \u201cIf we lose that, our vegetation will go away. But by using blue and green infrastructure, we can constantly replenish that freshwater lens and abate the sea level that\u2019s rising beneath us.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

\u201cFlooding is a nuisance, but that freshwater is a very valuable asset to the city for preserving its freshwater lens and keeping seawater down,\u201d added Alvarez. \u201cIn this way, we can convert what is initially a liability for the city and bring it into use.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

This case study<\/a> outlines how this is even made practical and feasible. The city has consolidated its public works projects into GIS, allowing them to look at them through additional layers of climate projections and the city\u2019s existing infrastructure. Their GIS successfully integrates the past, the present and the future \u2013 where projects have been implemented and how they\u2019ve performed, what projects are currently happening and where issues like flooding are still persistent, and what modern climate projections tell them about how to approach their capital improvements more efficiently and effectively, with multi-benefit outcomes. Beyond just better planning and implementation, illustrated by the quote above, the city is positioned to know how to take advantage of their periodic flooding instead of being crippled by it. <\/p>\n\n

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By implementing blue and green infrastructure in its design to manage floodwaters, the City of Miami Beach is consolidating public works projects to better prepare for sea level rise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Designing Your Future: Getting started<\/h2>\n\n

In 2025, I\u2019m looking to collaborate with my colleagues across a variety of industries to illustrate many more examples of how communities and organizations of all kinds use their GIS technology to operationalize climate action plans for resilience and sustainability. Your community might be that next example \u2013 you can shape the City of the Future.  
 
To sharpen your skills, we are once again offering the GIS for Climate Action Massive Open Online Course (MOOC<\/a>) so make sure you\u2019re enrolled in this free training course! <\/p>\n\n

Additionally, please check out more information and resources in our brochure, Confronting the Climate Crisis: GIS for Climate Action Planning<\/a> and\/or on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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