A5002780252- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Insurance and Financial Risk Management
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Housing Market and Economics
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Risk Perception and Management
- Risk and Portfolio Optimization
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- History of Science and Natural History
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Risk Management in Financial Firms
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Leadership, Behavior, and Decision-Making Studies
- Auction Theory and Applications
- Big Data Technologies and Applications
East Carolina University
2016-2025
Greenville College
2023-2024
Cornell University
2019-2023
University of Delaware
2019-2023
Piedmont International University
2023
ORCID
2022
Parsons School of Design
2012
In 2015, the U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded Center Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning (CoE), a fourteen university-based consortium almost 100 collaborators, including faculty, students, post-doctoral scholars, NIST researchers. This paper highlights scientific theory behind state-of-the-art cloud platform being developed by CoE - Interdisciplinary Networked Modeling Environment (IN-CORE). IN-CORE enables communities, consultants,...
The retrofit of wood-frame residential buildings is a relatively effective strategy to mitigate damage caused by windstorms. However, little known about the effect modifying building performance for intense events such as tornado and subsequent social economic impacts that result at community level following an event. This paper presents method enables select levels representative either retrofitting or adopting new design code computes target metrics effects on economy population. Although...
The current system for managing natural disaster risk in the United States is problematic both homeowners and insurers. Homeowners are often uninsured or underinsured against losses, typically do not invest retrofits that can reduce losses. Insurers want to insure these which some of their biggest exposures cause an undesirably high chance insolvency. There a need design improved acknowledges different perspectives stakeholders. In this article, we introduce new modeling framework help...
Insurance and retrofit are potentially effective but underutilized mechanisms to manage natural disaster risk (Mileti 1999). This project uses a North Carolina case study of residential buildings in that includes detailed, empirically based representation the building inventory, risk, insurance, strategies examine voluntary choices between insuring, retrofitting, or doing nothing. Using an expected utility framework, changes optimal response cost, risk-based insurance premiums, attitudes...
Abstract During hurricanes, flooding and wind cause property damage loss of life. Increased coastal development recent economic impacts hurricanes has increased stakeholders' interest in mitigation. Through the use Theory Planned Behaviour, this study focuses on factors that impact intention homeowners to mitigate. Methodologically, surveys were sent a random sample 2,500 North Carolina who provided insights about their hurricane mitigation experiences. The was purchased from Genesys, which...
Any entity offering flood insurance, whether it is private or government‐administered such as the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), faces challenge of solvency. This especially true for NFIP, where homeowner affordability criteria limit opportunity to charge fully risk‐based premiums. One solution remove highest risk properties from insurer's book business. Acquisition (buyout) flood‐prone structures a potentially permanent that eliminates while providing homeowners with financial...
Abstract We develop a computational framework for the stochastic and dynamic modeling of regional natural catastrophe losses with an insurance industry to support government decision‐making hurricane risk management. The analysis captures temporal changes in building inventory due acquisition (buyouts) high‐risk properties vulnerability stock retrofit mitigation decisions. system is comprised set interacting models (1) simulate hazard events; (2) estimate hurricane‐induced from each event...
It is recognized that compound coastal water events (CCWE) - the combination of rain, river, and ocean flooding often have increased disastrous consequences as compared to single-form floods due their physical complexity. However, another potential reason lack adequate understanding effective response by hazard professionals. In rural eastern North Carolina (ENC), an under-resourced CCWE-vulnerable region US, we survey interview a focus group primarily emergency managers planners about CCWE...
Eastern North Carolina (ENC), a predominantly rural region, experiences the intersection of fluvial, pluvial, and tidal flooding, which leads to complex impactful outcomes. Managing these, often compounding, hazards is challenging, especially as climate change drivers, such sea-level rise more intense storms will likely lead greater incidence compound coastal water events (CCWE). Using data from focus group interviews conducted with 41 planners emergency managers, we examine mitigation...
Even as new incentive programs emerge to encourage homeowners strengthen their homes so reduce the risk of damage in extreme events, little is known about how make such decisions. In this paper, we combine revealed and stated preference survey data develop separate mixed logit models for homeowner decisions retrofits aimed at addressing four different types hurricane damage—wind roof, openings (windows, doors), roof-to-wall connection, flood damage. Results provide evidence that offering a...
This paper introduces a computational framework that can be used to identify hurricane risk management solutions based on the operation of system as whole. The represents interactions among multiple types stakeholders (homeowners, insurers, government, reinsurers) and several strategies (insurance, retrofit, property acquisition). It supports following government decisions: (1) how much spend mitigation; (2) regulate price extreme event insurance; (3) allocate spending between homeowner...
Eastern North Carolina (ENC) has been buffeted by compound coastal water events (CCWEs) making residential buyouts, that seek to move households and communities out of flood risk areas, an important hazard mitigation tool. However, little is known about the experiences local public officials implementing buyout programmes in rural regions such as ENC United States. Using data from focus group interviews conducted with 24 emergency managers, planners, elected officials, other we examine...
Abstract An increasing number of national, state, and local programs have offered grants or other monetary incentives to encourage homeowners retrofit their homes reduce damage from natural hazard events. Despite this fact, little is known about how these offerings influence a homeowner’s decision carry out such structural retrofits. This paper studies the impact that different grant program designs in particular on undertake types retrofits mitigate against hurricane damage. Using data...
Abstract. Regional hurricane risk is often assessed assuming a static housing inventory, yet region's inventory changes continually. Failing to include in the built environment modeling can substantially underestimate expected losses. This study uses publicly available data and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network model forecast annual number of units for each 1000 individual counties southeastern United States over next 20 years. When evaluated using testing data, estimated was...