Disaster Recovery and Resiliency
Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Current Projects
Long-Term Outcomes of Post-Disaster Housing: Reasons Beneficiaries Continue to Occupy or Abandon Aid Houses in Aceh, Indonesia, 18 years after the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
This project investigates the reasons beneficiaries continue to occupy or abandon aid houses in Aceh, Indonesia, 18 years after the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami of 2004.
Building Capacity for Safer Shelter: Leveraging Local Understanding and Advanced Engineering Assessments
This research seeks to assess the expected safety of reconstructed shelter, analyze household understanding of shelter safety, characterize differences between assessed and perceived safety, and identify strategies to improve shelter safety in the Philippines and Puerto Rico.
Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Completed Projects
The Risk Landscape of Earthquakes Induced by Deep Wastewater Injection
This research seeks to understand how individuals evaluate information sources regarding the techna hazard of induced seismicity, as well as public beliefs regarding the cause and potential responses to the hazard.
Achieving Holistic Recovery and Risk Reduction: Connecting Relocation Implementation Decision Making to Outcomes at Relocation Sites
This research investigates how relocation decision makers prioritize risk reduction in order to identify means of advocating and strengthening holistic risk reduction, a process inclusive of lessening vulnerability and cultivating resilience alongside geographic displacement.
Construction Capacity: Regional Construction Supply Chains and Disruptions
This research seeks to measure the capacity of the U.S. construction industry, to improve how construction organizations coordinate labor and material resources in the wake of disruptive events.
Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Systems: Post-Disaster Reconstruction Processes and Stakeholder Networks
This research (1) identified key factors influencing inter-organizational coordination in post-disaster contexts; (2) identified types of household participation that arise in shelter projects and analyzed their impact on project outcomes; (3) identified methods of construction training used in shelter projects and their impact on household knowledge acquisition; and (4) analyzed combinations of coordination, participation, and training across the planning, design, and construction phases of shelter projects that led to infrastructure resilience and sustainability, in isolation and combination.
The Interdependence of Built, Social, and Information Infrastructures for Community Resilience: A Participatory Process
This research develops the conceptual framework and methodological approaches to marry physical and participatory processes for designing, modeling, and evaluating resilient communities.
Pathways to Sustainable Recovery
This research (1) identified recovery indicators and important causal conditions for community recovery across multiple disciplines (2) measured causal conditions and recovery indicators for villages in India impacted by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; and (3) analyzed the pathways of causal conditions that led to recovery in the case study communities.