Vulnerability and Environmental Change
A Participatory Approach to Building a Systems-Based Understanding of the Vulnerability of Commercial Fishermen to Workplace Hazards

 

Vulnerability and Environmental Change
Disaster Resilience in Rural Communities

 This research will contribute toward the collective social good of increasing the resilience of rural communities to disasters by developing a conceptual framework of the barriers to change. This framework can be used as a diagnostic aid to...

Vulnerability and Environmental Change
Improving understandings of consequences, vulnerabilities, and adaptation strategies to climate change related hazards

 

Vulnerability and Environmental Change
A risk-based approach to rapid vulnerability assessment in New England fishery communities

The primary goal of our project was to demonstrate the practicality and utility of an innovative rapid vulnerability assessment method for gathering routine social, economic, and cultural information about vulnerabilities of sub-groups to inform...

Vulnerability and Environmental Change
Case study of the long-term human impact, vulnerabilities, and resilience of Cordova, Alaska 20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill

The objective of this project is to complete a case study to document the longterm human impacts from the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 and to characterize the qualities of the Cordova community that have shaped the vulnerability and resilience of...

Vulnerability and Environmental Change
Informing coastal management adaptation planning and decision making for climate change using an interactive risk-based vulnerability assessment tool.

   Communities along the coast simultaneously face impacts from climate-influenced changes in offshore systems, such as sea level rise, shoreline erosion, hurricanes, and associated tidal surges and flooding, and in inland systems,...