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The Washington Post: Thousands of uninsured homes were in Helene’s path
Homeowners hundreds of miles inland rarely consider insuring their house against hurricanes the way coastal homeowners often do. What happens when a major storm like Hurricane Helene hits close to home? Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) affiliate and natural resource economist Craig Landry provided expertise in a recent article by The Washington Post exploring…
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IRIS affiliates call for better disaster preparedness in the wake of Hurricane Helene devastation
“We cannot continue business as usual,” say IRIS researchers The U.S. Southeast held its breath last week as the region prepared for Hurricane Helene, which threatened excessive rainfall and strong winds hundreds of miles north of its landfall destination on the Gulf Coast. One week later, over 215 casualties have been confirmed and entire cities…
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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…