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The Climate Just Map Tool shows which places may be most disadvantaged through climate impacts. It aims to raise awareness about how social vulnerability combined with exposure to hazards, like flooding and heat, may lead to uneven impacts in different neighbourhoods, causing climate disadvantage. The maps can be used alongside other local knowledge to identify where actions may be needed. There are maps on:
- Flooding (river/coastal flooding & surface water flooding)
- Heat
- Fuel poverty.
All of these can help to inform local planning and responses to support vulnerable people and places.
The guidance presented here focuses on the flood and heat maps.
Read our brief overview to understand the key issues associated with climate disadvantage due to flooding and heat.
Read the in depth section for the reasons for mapping climate disadvantage, the concepts and indicators, the national picture and what can be done about it.
Before using the tool, look at the benefits and drawbacks associated with the maps.
To understand how to interpret the maps, drawing on examples from different local authorities, see the user guide.
To create your own maps using additional data, please refer to our technical guide.
Have a look at the user guide [pdf download] to interpreting the maps for examples of local flood and heat maps. This should help you to understand and interpret your local picture.
Examine the maps of your local area. Are there areas of extreme flood or heat disadvantage?
Examine the drivers of this – is it about high exposure, high vulnerability or both? Which indicators make the area most vulnerable?
What does this suggest about the vulnerable groups and areas which you need to target in order to build resilience?
A downloadable spreadsheet of area values to assist you with this task can be found via the Data download tab. Local authority summaries will be available soon.
What do the maps suggest about issues to be tackled? Who else needs to be involved? Use the evidence on our website to help you consider issues for different vulnerable groups and how to develop local resilience.
Evaluate your local area profiles. To what extent do you agree with these? What is missing and what might be supplemented with local datasets? Can finer scale representations be generated for some indicators? Check back on the map benefits and limitations to help with this task.
Work with partners to develop responses.
How you use the maps will depend on your task, for example, concerns over specific groups, such as older people, or issues, such as the built environment.
Identify the issue of concern. If interested in flooding or heat, it is useful to begin by reviewing the maps of flood or heat disadvantage.
Remind yourself about the key concepts, or look at more detailed guidance to understand which places are climate disadvantaged.
Select a place of interest using the displaying maps guidance. Look at the drivers of disadvantage in that area by examining social vulnerability maps for the same topic.
Understand the related drivers of social vulnerability by building up a picture of the drivers of concern. This can be supporting by looking at the individual maps under the headings of:
- Characteristics of social flood vulnerability, i.e. susceptibility, ability to prepare, ability to respond, ability to recover and community support, followed by the compound indicators and their supporting variables.
- Dimensions and indicators of social vulnerability heat, including:
- Sensitivity for personal factors
- Enhanced exposure for built environment factors
- Ability to prepare/ respond or recover for factors linked to people’s adaptive capacity.
Use the maps to build up a local profile of the issues as a basis for identifying and discussing potential local responses with relevant stakeholders.
Consider both the profiles of local areas and potential issues for action. Which areas or issues are priorities? How does this relate to existing local knowledge? How can the maps be used alongside local knowledge to inform action?
Work with partners to develop a list of actions which can be taken now and longer term. See our adaptation planning section for further advice.
Select the 'Maps' icon [ ] above and choose a map by clicking on the tree menu. You can display a map layer by selecting the square check-box.
You can drag, or pan, the map around by holding the mouse button down. There are several navigation buttons on the left side of the map and you have four choices of base map: OS 'outdoor', 'light' or 'roads' and Esri's satellite layer.
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View the map in full screen mode. |
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Zoom in or out from national to local levels, or use your mouse wheel. |
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This only appears when a map layer is loading. It disappears when the layer has finished loading. |
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Zoom to box, or hold down the shift key and draw a box on the map. |
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Reset to full map |
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Go forward |
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Go back |
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Search for a place name or postcode. |
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Create a report |
Once a map layer is turned on you can alter the 'transparency' level to see the different layers on top of each other. The slider alters the transparency level from 0-100% and the 'eye' in the top-right toggles the layer visibility on/off.
A single click will force a popup window to appear with the exact data value for that polygon or grid square.
Only a few layers can be overlaid. The administrative boundaries can be overlaid alongside any maps. If looking at the flood maps, you can add any of the Environment Agency layers alongside other flood maps.
To print the maps along with a report of your query use the print button on the map.
Copyright
The Climate Just tool contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence
Full details can be found here: http://data.gov.uk/terms-and-conditions/
Contains derived data from the Office for National Statistics licensed
under the Open Government Licence.
© Crown copyright and database right 2012
Contains Ordnance Survey data
© Crown copyright and database right 2012
The Neighbourhood Flood Vulnerability Index (NFVI) and Social Flood Risk Index (SFRI)
This data remain the IPR of Sayers and Partners LLP but are provided free of charge for non-commercial use within the Climate Just website.
This excludes commercial use of the data (selling or reselling the data directly or within derived products, or for paid research or consultancy).
The origin and IPR of the data (specifically the NFVI and SFRI) should be clearly acknowledged as from Sayers and Partners 'Sayers, P.B., Horritt, M., Penning Rowsell, E., and Fieth, J. (2017). Present and future flood vulnerability, risk and disadvantage: A UK scale assessment. A report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published by Sayers and Partners LLP.'
The socio-spatial heat vulnerability Index and heat disadvantage data
These data remain the IPR of the University of Manchester but are provided free of charge for non-commercial use within the Climate Just website and via the associated download.
This excludes commercial use of the data (selling or reselling the data directly or within derived products, or for paid research or consultancy).
The origin and IPR of the data should be clearly acknowledged as from Lindley, S. J., O’Neill, J., Kandeh, J., Lawson, N., Christian, R. & O’Neill M. (2011) "Climate change, justice and vulnerability", Joseph Rowntree Foundation Report, York http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/climate-change-justice-and-vulnerability.
Further data acknowledgements should be made according to item 2 above. Furthermore, the heat disadvantage data are derived from UKCP09 data and any use should also carry the acknowledgement below.
Data Acknowledgement: UKCP09 © Crown Copyright 2009. The UK Climate Projections (UKCP09) have been made available by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) under licence from the Met Office, UKCIP, British Atmospheric Data Centre, Newcastle University, University of East Anglia, Environment Agency, Tyndall Centre and Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory. These organisations give no warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the UKCP09 and do not accept any liability for loss or damage, which may arise from reliance upon the UKCP09 and any use of the UKCP09 is undertaken entirely at the users risk.
The supply of data in no way implies or leads to an expectation of support in the use of these data. No updates or modifications will necessarily be made available. The University of Manchester does not make any warranty as to the accuracy of these data and will accept no liability for any inaccuracies in the dataset. There is no liability accepted by the University of Manchester in relation to any issues or liabilities that may subsequent arise from use of the data for any purpose. A list of caveats and limitations is available via the ClimateJust map portal.
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