This $150,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at Texas A&M University examining decision-making around evolving coastal flood risks. The grantee will develop an integrated framework combining risk modeling, economic sorting models, and social behavior models to understand how residential location choices are impacted by changing flood conditions and flood control infrastructure investments. This will quantify changes in...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded Rice University a $518,668 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant, awarded September 15, 2021 and concluding August 31, 2024, will support collaborative research on urban flooding and residential adaptation in Houston, Texas. The funding will enable Rice University researchers to partner with local organizations and residents to study how...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) project grant award of $555,778 to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) supports research on understanding how compound flood mechanisms influence decision-making about shoreline adaptation in multi-jurisdictional governance systems and how those decisions modify flood risk patterns. The key activities include: (i) surveying stakeholder adaptation preferences given information about flood interdependencies, (ii)...
This Project Grant award for $738,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a study examining how land management practices after government-funded property buyouts can integrate ecosystem services and community preferences to improve ecological and societal outcomes. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Conducting field research to document current land uses, estimate ecosystem...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $148,477 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to explore how scientific messages about environmental adaptation shape people's decisions, especially when their beliefs about the environment, politics, and other issues are closely connected. The project seeks to clarify how adaptation choices, such as flood-proofing homes or relocating from...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $299,271 to Lehigh University to develop a novel computer modeling approach that helps understand and manage flood risk more comprehensively. The key objectives are to: Establish a comprehensive US-Japan flood risk data inventory, including data related to marginalized groups. Develop a two-way coupled, multi-scale, agent-based flood risk...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) project grant, awarded to Trustees of Dartmouth College, examines how rural communities respond to overlapping disasters of flood inundation and other ecological stressors. The $161,611 project, running from May 2025 to April 2028, focuses on studying communication, responsibility, and collective community assistance during disaster response, recovery, and mitigation efforts. The researchers will conduct behavioral...
This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $399,622 supports research into the effects of chronic flooding on coastal migration in North Carolina. Led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the project will deploy novel sensor networks to detect floods of all sizes at high spatial resolution in identified flood-prone coastal areas. Household surveys and administrative records will provide data on migration intentions, behaviors, and socioeconomic...
This $100,608 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program investigates the relationships between human activities, place attachments, and environmental factors. The project takes a mixed-methods approach, including geographic mapping, to analyze how external pressures like natural disasters, land use changes, and weather pattern shifts impact place attachment. The research aims to develop a generalizable...
This $209,484 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), will support research at the University of Michigan examining decision-making under evolving and conditional flood risk associated with coastal flood barriers. The research will develop an integrated framework combining risk modeling, economic decisions modeling, and social behavioral modeling to...