A framework of agent-based models for housing recovery is presented and used to
investigate post-earthquake recovery in the City of Vancouver, Canada. Housing recovery is …

Wildfires have become increasing threats to residents, built environments, and ecosystems
in the USA. Individual responsibility plays an important role in reducing structure-level …

Catastrophe insurance is an important pre-disaster risk management tool that reduces
excessive financial burdens of homeowners following a hazard event and expedites the …

Insurance against disasters plays a critical role in community recovery by providing
policyholders with reliable and timely payments for repairing or reconstructing damaged …

In this dissertation an object-oriented framework of models is developed and applied to
study disaster recovery in communities in British Columbia, Canada. The impact of …

Having seen enormous economic and human losses that wildfires have caused over the
past decades, the federal and local governments, researchers, engineers, and the public …

In recent years, low-probability, high-impact natural hazard events have become an
increasingly serious threat to infrastructure systems and communities. This trend is …