For the Instructor

These student materials complement the Coastal Processes, Hazards and Society Instructor Materials. If you would like your students to have access to the student materials, we suggest you either point them at the Student Version which omits the framing pages with information designed for faculty (and this box). Or you can download these pages in several formats that you can include in your course website or local Learning Managment System. Learn more about using, modifying, and sharing InTeGrate teaching materials.

Initial Publication Date: December 7, 2016

Part 2: Vulnerability Comparison of 3 US Counties

Now that you have assigned each of the components to the appropriate dimension, we will use measures of these components to evaluate and compare the vulnerability of coastal residents in three U.S. counties to hurricane wind and storm surge.

The three counties you will be studying in this activity are Galveston County, Texas; St. Johns County, Florida; and Hudson County, New Jersey. These counties are all exposed to hurricane hazards, however their vulnerability differs in important ways. Over the course of this activity, you will learn how to measure many of the components of vulnerability in these places, and how to compare vulnerability across places and dimensions.

Use the table in the worksheet you downloaded to record the vulnerability measures for each county. Detailed instructions for how to find each measure are provided in the worksheet, and can also be downloaded individually below.