This next slide I'm not expecting you to be able to read, but
it shows basically how we take each of those causes down.
This only shows another couple layers, but this goes all the way down several more
layers until at the end we have a set of indicators that we could track
to assess food system functioning and potential ways that the system could fail.
So then as we go about developing a plan,
the first thing is there's a hazard assessment.
So, what are the actual risks that we're concerned about?
And some of this builds on the city's broader planning that they've done for
a whole variety of systems.
So they looked at how does flooding and coastal hazards,
precipitation variability, extreme heat, wind, how do those kinds of factors affect
transportation systems, health systems, other systems in the city?
They didn't get to food partly because food is so very complex.
So we're building on that prior work, but we're also bringing other things like
civil unrest, terrorism, we're looking at cyber attack or disruption to
the Internet system, pandemic, a whole range and types of hazards and
we're looking at how each of these might affect things in the food system.
Then, there's a vulnerability assessment.
So, how might those play out in terms of ways that the food system can be harmed,
like damaged buildings, lost electricity or communications, food or
resource shortages and price rises, food contamination.
There's also things like if people can't travel,
either maybe they're stopped up because of snow or maybe they're under quarantine or
the transportation system is damaged, businesses are closed,
there's all kinds of different ways that we could be vulnerable.
And what's really important is that there's very differential vulnerabilities
across the population, whether its people with low income, people
without their own transportation, people with disabilities, or seniors, and so on.
So really with close attention to these differential vulnerabilities.