Disaster Research Center: Coastal Hazards, Equity,Economic Prosperity & Resilience (CHEER) Hub
Rachel Davidson (UDel), Ertugrul Taciroglu (UCLA), Meghan Millea (ECU), Brian Colle (Stony Brook), Julie Elliott (UDel), and A.R. Siders (UDel)
Abstract:
The Coastal Hazards, Equity, Economic prosperity, and Resilience (CHEER) Hub aims to advance understanding of the complex interactions among equity, economic prosperity, and resilience to hurricane-related hazards in the context of climate change. It centers on development of the Stakeholder-based Tool for the Analysis of Regional Risk (STARR), a dynamic, stochastic computational framework designed to inform the creation and analysis of government policies for regional disaster risk management. STARR consists of seven interacting modules. Three describe the decision-making of, respectively, government agencies, insurers, and households; and four describe the natural, built, and economic environments in which those decisions are made. The tool is intended to: (1) support policy-making by facilitating development and evaluation of possible disaster risk management policies; (2) facilitate understanding of the dynamic system of regional disaster risk management, including interactions among stakeholder actions; and (3) guide future research in a way that tightly integrates social science, physical science, and engineering contributions, demonstrating the interrelation among research advances and identifying gaps in knowledge. While it is possible to extend the framework to consider other hazards and stakeholders, STARR currently focuses on hurricanes and on households/housing.
