Health and Medical Lifelines Flood Exposure Analysis

• This video presents an analysis of the flood risk for hospitals, EMS stations, nursing homes, and other healthcare "lifelines" in New Jersey, which was completed by Tracy Glova, a graduate student at Rutgers University. 
• The analysis uncovered hundreds of health and medical "lifelines" that are currently in flood zones, which will affect the state's ability to respond effectively during a disaster.
  

Positives

• This video shows how climate change research can be used to mitigate future effects by influencing public policy and city planning.
• Students in New Jersey are probably unaware of this issue facing their state.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• The analysis in this video only includes New Jersey.
• Students should already be familiar with flooding and its connections to climate change.
  

Differentiation

• In a civics course, students could be tasked with researching and proposing changes in public policy or city planning that would mitigate the flood risks presented in the video.
• This video could be used in a geography course to demonstrate how human-induced climate change will affect city planning and land use, and how coastal regions will have to adapt to changing flood risk zones.
• Students could perform their own mini-analysis based on the video by locating "lifeline" facilities near their home or school and determining their flood risk.
• The videos Inside a City Redesigned for Superstorms and Sea Level Rise and Why Chronic Floods Are Coming to New Jersey are both New Jersey specific resources about flooding that would pair well with this video.
• Other resources related to flooding include Solutions Can Protect Coastal Communities and Google Earth - Sea Level Rise and the Fate of Coastal Cities.

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