Climate change visualization

Future Avoided Cost Explorer (FACE)

Client: Colorado DHSEM and CWCB

Team Lead: Lynker Technologies (Boulder, CO) | 2020

This ground-breaking climate change visualization tool helps Colorado decision-makers evaluate and prioritize adaptive strategies to mitigate the impacts of climate change on their communities. The tool’s web-based interactive dashboard was developed by Lynker Intel’s Boulder office and is powered by ESRI Story Maps.

LVBrown Studios digital illustrations tell the story of climate change across three environmental hazards—flood, fire and drought—across three landscape settings—mountain, plains, and foothills. The scenes depict current conditions and two future scenarios—No-action 2050, and Resilient 2050—focusing on economic impacts to agriculture, recreation, and property and infrastructure.

The project was led by the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) and the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

PROJECT NEWS

Lynker creates the Future Avoided Cost Explorer: Colorado Hazards (FACE:Hazards)

In the past two decades, Colorado has experienced wildfires, sustained droughts, and intense flood events – natural hazards that have had significant impacts on the Colorado economy. The State of Colorado recognizes that these hazards can be exacerbated as climate change intensifies the severity of events, and a growing population puts more people into harm’s way. In response, the Colorado Department of Public Safety, in collaboration with the Colorado Water Conservation Board and FEMA, commissioned a statewide assessment of current and future risks from flood, drought, and wildfire.

The project expresses risk in terms of monetary impacts to select sectors of the Colorado economy, including private housing, public infrastructure, agriculture, and tourism. The information assembled can be used to stimulate the implementation of smart adaptation strategies and policy frameworks that strengthen vulnerable sectors in a rapidly changing environment….

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