Faculty and Adjunct Scholarship

The Practical Use of Social Vulnerability Indicators in Disaster Management

Wood, Erik; Sanders, Monica; Frazier, Tim (Elsevier, 2021-07-10)

As climate change focuses more frequent and intense disasters on vulnerable communities across the globe, mitigation and response resources need to be allocated more efficiently and equitably. Vulnerability assessments ...
Socioeconomic Implications of National Flood Insurance Policy Reform and Flood Insurance Rate Map Revisions

Frazier, Tim; Boyden, Elizabeth E.; Wood, Erik (Springer Nature, 2020-05-07)

Flooding exacerbated by climate change has resulted in more mandatory community participation in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The purpose of this research is social ...
Decentralized Humanitarian Aid Deployment; Reimagining the Delivery of Aid

Wood, Erik; Frazier, Tim (Emerald Insight, 2019-11-20)

Current centralized humanitarian aid deployment practices may encourage urbanization thereby weakening short and long-term resiliency of lower-income countries receiving aid. The purpose of this study is first, to explore ...