Speaker: Dr. Oronde Drakes
Decision Support Branch
Integrated Information Dissemination Division
United States Geological Survey
Thursday, October 5, 2023
3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8)
Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom
University of Florida
Abstract: Social circumstances interact with physical conditions to produce different levels of suffering and recovery from hazard events. Understanding and modeling these processes is necessary to inform decision making before, during and after hazard events. We illustrate how disbursement of disaster assistance is influenced by social vulnerability across the conterminous US. Our models show multihazard social vulnerability has different associations with disaster assistance based on where you live as well as factors of race. We then developed a new model of social vulnerability to multiple hazards suitable for local and national disaster risk reduction activities in Guyana. We also show that applying qualitative data on local context of hazard exposure and livelihoods can outperform a standard social vulnerability index.
Biography: Oronde’s research interrogates the intersections among natural hazards and society, focusing on social vulnerability in multiple hazard contexts, and its implications for disproportionate hazard exposure, impacts, and recovery.
All are welcome to attend.
For more information, email Dr. Cynthia Simmons at cssimmons@ufl.edu