Represent Goal 13 (Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts)

[pbuttigieg]

Represent Goal 13

In particular "exposure" - we should create a complete example around this. Visual data is available. Exposure is not in the target wording, but in the indicators: population exposure to environmental hazards (cross-reference #14 #13). This will need input from PCO @rlwalls2008, following up on our discussions. @mark-jensen @pdez90 - will post links to relevant data

[pdez90]

Hi all,

I have attached the mapping app the UNEPlive team has developed for population exposure to 'fire'.

If you go to UNEP-Live, Global Maps and then go to Disasters- Population Exposure (PREVIEW), we have put up population exposure to several disasters (earthquakes, landslides etc.) Each can be seen by adding a layer to the map. http://uneplive.org/global/index#maps

Please let us know if you need the data in another format.

Also when it comes to how far you should go along the ontology- it would be great to establish linkages between the term 'exposure' and another 'important' SDG term. Jacquie wants us to update data on Target 6 which is related to water and sanitation. I wonder if you could develop linkages far enough to show an interlinkage.

Jacquie is busy now but I'll try and get her before her flight and ask her if she can give us such a word before she catches her flight

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Pier Luigi Buttigieg < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Represent Goal 13 https://github.com/SDG-InterfaceOntology/sdgio/wiki/The-Targets#goal--13-take-urgent-action-to-combat-climate-change-and-its-impacts

In particular "exposure" - we should create a complete example around this. Visual data is available. @mark-jensen https://github.com/mark-jensen @pdez90 https://github.com/pdez90

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/SDG-InterfaceOntology/sdgio/issues/18.

Yours Sincerely, Priyanka deSouza

[pbuttigieg]

thanks @pdez90

Jacquie wants us to update data on Target 6 which is related to water and sanitation.

I think you mean Goal 6, in which case you can post the requirements for SDG 6 on #20.

we have put up population exposure to several disasters (earthquakes, landslides etc.)

Barry and I are working on disasters, see #13. I'm sure exposure has featured in the biomedical space perhaps @cmungall or @rlwalls2008 have input here?

[pdez90]

Thanks Pier! I did mean Goal 6. I apologize for the mistake.

I was unable to catch Jacquie before her flight.

I think we could develop the linkages from exposure to words such as water risk access

that would be great

I'll post a request for the words: 'access' and 'risk' on the relevant thread.

Thanks Pier.

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Pier Luigi Buttigieg < notifications@github.com> wrote:

thanks @pdez90 https://github.com/pdez90

Jacquie wants us to update data on Target 6 which is related to water and sanitation.

I think you mean Goal 6 https://github.com/SDG-InterfaceOntology/sdgio/wiki/The-Targets#goal--6-ensure-availability-and-sustainable-management-of-water-and-sanitation-for-all, in which case you can post the requirements for SDG 6 on #20 https://github.com/SDG-InterfaceOntology/sdgio/issues/20.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/SDG-InterfaceOntology/sdgio/issues/18#issuecomment-141994008 .

Yours Sincerely, Priyanka deSouza

[pbuttigieg]

access and risk will probably be in the SDGIO itself (at least until a better home is found). @phismith and I will start the definition process.

[cmungall]

What does 'exposure' mean here?

I can think of different senses

1. direct exposure to X: the subject comes into contact with X by overlapping the same spatiotemporal space at some point (e.g. is burned by the fire)
2. indirect exposure to X: the subject does not overlap but is in the vicinity (e.g. subject smells the smoke, and needs to abandon their house)
3. risk of {direct,indirect} exposure to X (e.g. subject has increased insecurity through living in fire-prone area exacerbated by lack of access to fire protection services)
4. exposure in the acturial or business sense (I won't attempt an elucidation, out of my league)

An experimental biologist may think in terms of (1). This is the sense used in terms of the chemical-toxicogenomics exposure ontology (https://github.com/CTDbase/exposure-ontology-draft). I suspect these sense required here is more along the lines of (3) or possibly incorporating aspects of (4)

Here is an existing UN definition of exposure:

https://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/drr/resourceDrrDefinitions_en.html Exposure is the total value of elements at-risk. It is expressed as the number of human lives, and value of the properties, that can potentially be affected by hazards. Exposure is a function of the geographic location of the elements [Source: UNDP (2004): Reducing Disaster Risk: a challenge for development. A global report (M. Pelling, A. Maskrey, P. Ruiz, L. Hall, eds.). John S. Swift Co., USA, 146 pp,]

[ramonawalls]

There is an exposure ontology (http://www.ontobee.org/ontology/ExO) that comes out of environmental health. It could use some work (last time I looked), but some of it is useful. Might be better than making new terms.