A5026938580- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies
- Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Forest Management and Policy
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
Duke University
2005-2023
In an analysis of the 200‐year history flood management in Hungary, I use advocacy coalition framework and focusing event literature to examine what policy change occurs is learned as a result experiencing extreme damaging events. By analyzing response series floods (1998–2001) this newly democratizing nation, attempt identify factors that influenced occurrence policy‐oriented learning. 2003, Hungary enacted comprehensive program included economic development environmental protection goals,...
Natural disasters may be windows of opportunity for policy change and learning by local governments, which are the entities primarily responsible recovery rebuilding process after a disaster strikes in United States. During recovery, governments faced with myriad challenges, from technical issues concerning repair replacement infrastructure to broader substantive questions reducing vulnerability future hazards. Their actions constrained federal state policies related yet they must make their...
Whereas policy change is often characterized as a gradual and incremental process, effective crisis response necessitates that organizations adapt to evolving problems in near real time. Nowhere this dynamic more evident than the case of COVID-19, which forced subnational governments constantly adjust recalibrate public health disease mitigation measures face changing patterns viral transmission emergence new information. This study assesses (a) extent policies changed over course pandemic;...
Current and future climate-related coastal impacts such as catastrophic repetitive flooding, hurricane intensity, sea level rise necessitate a new approach to developing managing infrastructure. Traditional “hard” or “grey” engineering solutions are proving both expensive inflexible in the face of rapidly changing environment. Hybrid that incorporate natural, nature-based, structural, non-structural features may better achieve broad set goals ecological enhancement, long-term adaptation,...
Abstract Policy entrepreneurs have traditionally been recognized for their ability to influence policymakers by framing policy problems and pairing them with preferred solutions. Does extend the public? We examine this question in context of COVID‐19 pandemic United States. analyze whether an individual's perception a visible, national‐level entrepreneur, director National Institute Allergy Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Dr. Anthony Fauci, influences perceived risk contracting virus uptake...