C
Christopher T. Emrich
Researcher at University of Central Florida
Publications - 65
Citations - 6023
Christopher T. Emrich is an academic researcher from University of Central Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social vulnerability & Vulnerability. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 62 publications receiving 4667 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher T. Emrich include University of South Carolina.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a methodology and a set of indicators for measuring baseline characteristics of communities that foster resilience by establishing baseline conditions, it becomes possible to monitor changes in resilience over time in particular places and to compare one place to another.
Journal ArticleDOI
The geographies of community disaster resilience
TL;DR: The Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) as discussed by the authors measure the inherent resilience of counties in the United States according to six different domains or capitals as identified in the extant literature: social, economic, housing and infrastructure, institutional, community, and environmental.
Journal ArticleDOI
Moral Hazard, Social Catastrophe: The Changing Face of Vulnerability along the Hurricane Coasts:
TL;DR: The social vulnerability of the American population is not evenly distributed among social groups or between places as mentioned in this paper, and the geographic discrepancies in social vulnerability also necessitate different mitigation, post-response, and recovery actions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Erosion Hazard Vulnerability of US Coastal Counties
TL;DR: The authors examined the vulnerability of US coastal counties to erosion by combining a socioeconomic vulnerability index with the US Geological Survey's physically-based coastal vulnerability index, and the end product is a county-based index of overall coastal place vulnerability.
Journal ArticleDOI
Disaster disparities and differential recovery in New Orleans
TL;DR: This article examined how the pre-existing social vulnerabilities within New Orleans interacted with the level of flood exposure to produce inequities in the socio-spatial patterns of recovery and found a distinct geographic pattern to the recovery suggesting that the social burdens and impacts from Hurricane Katrina are uneven.