ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Clim.
Sec. Climate Mobility
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fclim.2025.1521507
This article is part of the Research TopicManaged Retreat in Response to Climate HazardsView all 7 articles
Feature Importance of Climate Vulnerability Indicators with Gradient Boosting across Five Global Cities
Provisionally accepted
- 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- 2Princeton University, Princeton, United States
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Efforts are needed to better identify and measure both communities' exposure to climate hazards and the social vulnerabilities that interact with these hazards, but the science of validating climate risk indicators is still in its infancy. Progress is needed to improve: 1) the selection of variables that are used as proxies to represent hazard exposure and vulnerability; 2) the applicability and scale for which these indicators are intended, including their suitability for transnational comparisons. We draw on an international urban survey in
Keywords: Environmental justice (EJ), Disaster & risk management, managed retreat, survey analyses, XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boosting), Climate vulnerability analysis
Received: 01 Nov 2024; Accepted: 28 May 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Lidia Cano Pecharroman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, Massachusetts, United States
Melissa Oberon Tier, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
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