A5025035104- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Disaster Response and Management
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Ethics in medical practice
ORCID
2024
Cornell University
2022-2024
Climate change-exacerbated flooding has renewed interest in property buyouts as a pillar of managed retreat from coastal zones and floodplains the United States. However, federal buyout programs are widely critiqued for being inaccessible inequitable. To learn whether how subnational overcome these limitations, we examined five leading US state, county, local to see what they teach us about redesigning future policies. Our mixed-methods research used interviews document analysis develop case...
How can gender and empowerment drive the development of a community's adaptive capacity to disasters? Disaster plans be used allocate resources, instill processes, reach goals; however, once in place, these also determining factor either empower or exclude. One 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SDG 5, targets equality for all women girls. Under lens working toward this goal as part disaster preparedness will improve community respond recover, ultimately reducing...
The purpose of this research is to identify how decision-makers within anchor institutions, using the context higher education, determine course action in response an improbable disaster event, such as recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. A survey was conducted among education during spring 2020 at moment they were adapting COVID-19. aimed policies and planning measures that may help Institutions Higher Education learn from experience maintain continuity operations should...
In the United States, most floodplain relocation (or buyout) programs focus on moving homeowners, then deal separately with what happens land afterward. These typically divide processes for planning, engagement, funding, and implementation from those related to post-buyout management restoration. The structural operational conditions that lead this separation of roles responsibilities miss out opportunities create more synergistic socio-ecological strategies may produce healthier outcomes...