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Speaker: Dr. Eric Tate, Professor in Public Affairs at Princeton University
Date: Friday, April 4, 2025
Time: 1pm
Location: Alampi Room, Marine Sciences Building, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Abstract: Addressing social vulnerability is an increasingly applied focus in evaluating the effectiveness of flood mitigation investments. However, persistent challenges inhibit the advancement from generalized to context-specific social vulnerability metrics, due to a combination of path dependence and methodological limitations in accounting for uncertainty, compounding vulnerabilities, scale dependence, and spatial nonstationarity. This presentation profiles research pathways to overcome these challenges, toward developing a new generation of social vulnerability indicators tailored to specific use cases in flood adaptation modeling, planning, and policy.
This will be a hybrid event.
Zoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/f8pv0ujgQgWdhKsFdpH2yw