Abstract
It is estimated that the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season caused a substantial $203 billion in damages. Changes in hurricane intensity or/and frequency may be expected due to the changing climate. This chapter presents a risk and cost-benefit based framework to assess the potential hurricane damage risks to residential construction and investigate the cost-effectiveness of different adaptation strategies under various wind speed change scenarios due to climate change. Various adaptation strategies are developed in an attempt to mitigate damage costs. Three case study locations (Miami-Dade County, New Hanover County, and Galveston County) are presented. The damage risk estimated by the framework is validated by comparing with the HAZUS-MH Hurricane Model and the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model. This study finds that climate change may have a substantial impact on damage estimation in coastal areas, and that certain adaptation strategies can cost-effectively decrease the damage costs.
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