A5039036283- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- International Development and Aid
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Economic Sanctions and International Relations
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
California University of Pennsylvania
2024
University of Pennsylvania
2024
University of Notre Dame
2019-2023
Abstract Climate change is the greatest governance challenge humanity has ever faced. Understanding why some governments successfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions and others fail thus imperative. While regime type often hypothesized to be a source of variation in emissions, empirical findings about effects democracy autocracy on climate action are contradictory. This research note reconciles these inconsistencies adopts quasi-experimental approach investigate relationship between...
Communities are already grappling with climate change's acute effects, evidenced by the growing frequency and intensity of extreme events worldwide. Strategies to encourage adaptation change urgently needed, particularly preempt common ineffective maladaptive responses. The United States provides a notable case study for testing potential economic incentives drive voluntary in vulnerable coastal communities where mandates through building codes have proven insufficient limit losses. This...
We leverage statistical and natural language processing (NLP) tools for a systematic analysis of triggers state-led mass killings. The work advances the application statistics NLP in social sciences also contributes to scholarly efforts by empirically identifying prominent triggering events civilian More specifically we seek understand timing dynamics political violence escalation, examining systematically how certain types may generate government's policy killing civilians. project provides...
Subsidized insurance is often described as a perverse incentive, moral hazard, or maladaptation that perpetuates coastal residencies in vulnerable homes despite increasing safety and economic risks from hurricanes, sea level rise, other climate change impacts. Insurance also positive factor risk reduction if insurers proactively reward homeowners for upgrades mitigate losses hurricanes. The empirical policy-relevant question remains whether perceive incentives positive. A new survey of 662...
Does environmental displacement provoke political instability? Though migration has long been considered an intermediary in the causal path between change and upheaval, relationship remains theoretically underdeveloped evidence limited. This article examines impact of caused by sudden-onset natural hazards on disruptive antigovernment events including armed conflict, protests violent riots. It leverages new Environmental Displacement Dataset (EnDis), original dataset that identifies...
Abstract Why do states initiate mass killing campaigns against their civilian populations? What explains the timing of state-led killing? Extant research has developed a sophisticated understanding general social, political, and economic conditions that elevate country's risk killing. However, these conditions—which include factors such as regime type ongoing civil war—are relatively static cannot explain why violence erupts at particular point in time, even under high-risk circumstances. In...