Hurricane Season 2016: Locating Resiliency in Sandy's Aftermath`
CARTO, a location intelligence platform, has collaborated with the Mayor's Office of Recovery and Resiliency (ORR) to create an interactive map that visualizes anticipated changes facing New York City due to climate change. The project aims to prevent a repeat of Hurricane Sandy's destruction by charting a course for resiliency in low-lying coastal regions. ORR has pledged $20 billion to fund recovery and resiliency efforts, which are being promoted through an exploratory dashboard developed by CARTO. The platform allows users to search their addresses to view neighborhood risk of potential flooding and scheduled projects to prevent natural disasters, making climate change more visible and urgent for the public. This collaboration dovetails with CARTO's commitment to democratizing location data across sectors and industries.