Climate Impacts, Adaptations, and Resilience

This research examines rapid changes in climate and land use and their influences on flood hazards and associated risks with the goal of developing policy-relevant frameworks for building community resilience. The work focuses on developing risk-based approaches to assess both conventional and innovative mitigation strategies within changing anthropogenic conditions. It also informs watershed-scale flood risk management policies by analyzing the socio-economic benefits and environmental impacts of different adaptation approaches, as well as identifies land use or flood mitigation decisions that may be maladaptive over the long-term. As aging U.S. infrastructure faces increasing climate pressures, this work provides critical insights for resilient flood risk management strategies that can adapt to evolving conditions and support sustainable community development over decadal timescales.