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Item Open Access Regional County-Level Housing Inventory Predictions and the Effects on Hurricane Risk(2022-03-30) Millea, Meghan; Kruse, Jamie L.; Williams, Caroline J.; et alItem Open Access Determination of Individual Building Performance Targets to Achieve Community-Level Social and Economic Resilience Metrics(2022-03-12) Kruse, Jamie L.; Wang, Wanting “Lisa”; et alItem Open Access The Impact of International Virtual Exchange on Student Success(2022) Lee, Jonathan; Leibowitz, Jami; Rezek, Jon; Millea, Meghan; Saffo, GeorgeItem Open Access Homeowner Preference for Household-Level Flood Mitigation in US: Analysis of a Discrete Choice Experiment(2022) Howard, Gregory; Frimpong, Eugene; Kruse, JamieItem Open Access What Makes Homeowners Consider Protective Actions to Reduce Disaster Risk? An Application of the Precaution Adoption Process Model and Life Course Theory(2021) Stock, Alexia; Davidson, Rachel; Trainor, Joseph E.; Slotter, Rachel; Nozick, Linda K.; Kruse, Jamie B.Item Open Access Homeowner Preference for Household-level Flood Mitigation in US: Analysis of a Discrete Choice Experiment(2022-03-22) Frimpong, Eugene; Howard, Gregory; Kruse, JamieThe Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offers a portfolio of flood risk mitigation options for high-risk homeowners, hoping to reduce flood damages. Buyout (home acquisition) and home retrofit (e.g., home elevation) are candidates available to homeowners. FEMA has recently amended and increased its buyout efforts. This study examines homeowners’ stated preference for buyout and home elevation contracts using survey data. Results indicate multiple factors influence the decision to participate in home acquisition and elevation programs. Importantly, we find that preferences vary with the timing (whether the contract is offered before or after a damage event) of the contract offered.Item Open Access Does Land Degradation Increase Poverty in Developing Countries?(2016-05-11) Barbier, Edward B.; Hochard, Jacob P.Land degradation is a global problem that particularly impacts the poor rural inhabitants of low and middle-income countries. We improve upon existing literature by estimating the extent of rural populations in 2000 and 2010 globally on degrading and improving agricultural land, taking into account the role of market access, and analyzing the resulting impacts on poverty. Using a variety of spatially referenced datasets, we estimate that 1.33 billion people worldwide in 2000 were located on degrading agricultural land (DAL), of which 1.26 billion were in developing countries. Almost all the world’s 200 million people on remote DAL were in developing countries, which is about 6% of their rural population. There were also 1.54 billion rural people on improving agricultural land (IAL), with 1.34 billion in developing countries. We find that a lower share of people in 2000 on DAL, or a higher share on IAL, lowers significantly how much overall economic growth reduces poverty from 2000 to 2012 across 83 developing countries. As the population on DAL and IAL in developing countries grew by 13% and 15% respectively from 2000 to 2010, these changing spatial distributions of rural populations could impact significantly future poverty in developing countries.Item Open Access Time Series Forecasting: How Much Prologue is the Past?(2013-04) Rothman, Philip A.