Open GIScience

Joseph Holler's Open GIScience Curriculum at Middlebury College

SoVI Validity Study

Oct-26 : In this lesson, we will study the replication and validity checks of SoVI.

The purpose of this lecture is to draw workflows and discuss our preliminary undertsanding of Spielman et al’s evaluation of Cutter’s Social Vulnerability Index.

Reading

Spielman, S. E., Tuccillo, J., Folch, D. C., Schweikert, A., Davies, R., Wood, N., & Tate, E. (2020). Evaluating social vulnerability indicators: criteria and their application to the Social Vulnerability Index. Natural Hazards, 100(1), 417–436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03820-z

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