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What does resilience look like halfway around the world? Urban infrastructure researchers Alysha Helmrich and Lynn Abdouni explore resilience planning in Doha, Qatar
The concept of resilience can be slippery. Is it about longevity, flexibility, adaptivity? All of the above? Resilience has different definitions across disciplines, space, and time, and researchers at IRIS are figuring out the shape that resilience takes in a new project based over 7000 miles away. This summer, urban infrastructure researchers Alysha Helmrich and…
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New publication: A coupled model for understanding market dynamics in coastal property values
Congratulations to Craig Landry and colleagues for their recent publication in Nature Communications. They developed a coupled human-natural systems, agent-based model to understand the influence of tax incentives, market dynamics, and coastal management subsidies on U.S. coastal property values, finding a damped response to coastal hazards that could be ameliorated through policy changes. Such changes could hasten gentrification…
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New publication: Spatial planning to maximize levee setback co-benefits
Levee setbacks have a lot of potential co-benefits. How can we maximize them? In a new paper published this month in WIREs Water, a team including several affiliates and alumni from the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems review the myriad of benefits that have been associated with an increasingly popular nature-based solution: levee setbacks. A levee is an…
