For those interested in international disasters, my recently published article, Funding Flows: Transboundary Considerations of Disaster Recovery, looks at the transboundary processes of disaster recovery, specifically related to the financing of post-disaster recovery. Depending on the scale and visibility of the disaster and local capacities, financial arrangements, resources, and assistance can come from a variety of…
NOAA-COCA Grant
Excited to be part of the ECU research team awarded a NOAA Coastal & Ocean Climate Applications (NOAA-COCA) grant. The team proposes to co-produce compound event non-structural tools with emergency managers and planners in coastal counties of North Carolina, making up three regional government councils and roughly coinciding with the northeast and southeast economic zones….
Greenville Dodged a Bullet With Florence
Article on Post Disaster Housing Recovery
POST-DISASTER HOUSING RECOVERY Rapid urbanization and growing populations have put tremendous pressures on limited global housing stocks. As the frequency of disasters has increased with devastating impacts on this limited stock of housing, the discourse on post-disaster housing recovery has evolved in several ways. Prior to the 1970s, the field was largely understudied, and there…
Hurricane Matthew Impact in the City of Greenville – Post II
AS THE TAR RIVER CRESTED (Friday, October 14, 2016) Hurricane Matthew has cut a wide swath of damage and flooding in the state of North Carolina. As the City of Greenville, located in the Tar-Pamlico River Basin in Eastern North Carolina, deals with rising water in the Tar River, below are images that document the…