Environment

New Journal Article on Flood Risk Perceptions and the Role of Trust and Confidence

  • by Clare Cannon

This study advances scholarly debate on the impact of confidence and trust on flood risk perceptions using data from a random sample of 403 residents in New Orleans, a U.S. coastal city with hundreds of miles of levees to protect the city from flooding. The research focuses on several predictors including specific trust measures of local, state, and federal authorities, sociodemographic characteristics, and experience with flood damage.

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NEW PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE IN ELEMENTA

  • by Clare Cannon
"Advancing sustainable transitions: A spatial analysis of socio-environmental dynamics of landfills across the United States"

Landfills are a kind of environmental hazard, linked to harms, such as the production of greenhouse gases and the accumulation of toxins in natural and human systems. Landfills contribute to climate change through emissions. Yet, the inclusion of socio-environmental dynamics of waste management systems in sustainability research has been understudied.

New journal article on the double whammy of climate change and flood insurance

  • by Clare Cannon
Examining the Climate Change Double Whammy

This paper advances scholarly debate on the contradictions of environmental risk management measures by analyzing the determinants of flood insurance coverage among a sample of 403 residents in New Orleans, a city undergoing rapid transformation due to post-Katrina rebuilding efforts and anthropogenic modifications of climate, hydrology, and ecology.  The paper focuses on several predictors including subjective flood risk perception, trust in government officials, sociodemographic characteristics, and experience with flood damage.  Using b

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