Mapping R2C Threats & Risks

UCF's Emergency Management Research Initiative (EMRI) focuses on improving decision making in each phase of the emergency management cycle through empirical assessment of threats, vulnerabilities, risks, and recovery outcomes.

Leadership

Dr. Emrich is the Boardman Endowed Professor of Environmental Science and Public Administration within University of Central Florida’s School of Public Administration and Director of Research in UCF’s newly formed National Center for Integrated Coastal Research (UCF Coastal). His research/practical service includes applying geospatial technologies to emergency management planning and practice, long-term disaster recovery analysis, and the intersection of social vulnerability and community resilience in the face of catastrophe. From 2004 - 2008 he provided geospatial support for response and long-term recovery to the states of Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi and has since been actively involved in understanding how differential recoveries manifest across disaster-stricken areas. Dr. Emrich is actively working at pinpointing challenges to equity in disaster recovery and mitigation and where he has most recently assisted in building empirically based and result-oriented impacts assessments to inform recovery programs in several states and US territories. He has remained at the vanguard of theory, data, metrics, methods, applications, and spatial analytical model development for understanding in the field of hazard vulnerability science and the often very in-equitable and disproportionate pattern of disaster loss and recovery across communities.