This monthly speaker series presents cutting-edge research and approaches on the resilience of urban and rural communities and systems to hazards and disasters. The speakers represent the core faculty of Portland State University’s new transdisciplinary Emergency Management and Community Resilience graduate program. The talks will critically focus on local and global issues and share pragmatic solutions. Learn about upcoming speakers and degree programs: Toward Resilient Futures Website
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Separating the Wheat from the Weeds: Resilience Fixes and Transformative Resilience in Response to Climate Disasters AND Resilience: An Evaluation Thinking Perspective
Jola Idowu Ajibade and Eric Einspruch
This recording includes two presentations. Dr. Ajibade's talk engages with the all-too-easily-taken-for granted separation between resilience as stability and resilience as transformation after disasters. It examines whether strategies adopted after ...Read More
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Toward a Resilient Urban Forest
Vivek Shandas
The urban forest provides myriad benefits for improving the health and well-being of residents. Yet, a rapidly warming planet poses acute challenges for maintaining existing tree canopy due the localized ...Read More
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Communicating Science and Risk / Communicating Health and Risk
Jeremy Spoon, Brianne Suldovsky, and Lauren Frank
Jeremy Spoon explains the Emergency Management and Community Resilience degree program, its curriculum, benefits, and how to apply. Brianne Suldovsky, Assistant Professor of Communication, presents, "Communicating Science and Risk," discussing ...Read More
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Learn from Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Crisis
Masami Nishishiba and Hiro Ito
On March 11, 2011, exactly ten years ago, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit the Tohoku region, Japan. With the following massive tsunamis hitting the coastal area, approximately 18,000 people were ...Read More
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Geodisaster Resilience – Quakes, Floods, Slides and More
Scott F. Burns
Dr. Scott Burns has over 50 years of experience with geo-disasters all over the world. He will talk mostly about earthquakes, landslides, floods, volcanic eruptions, fires, and tsunamis in the ...Read More
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Lessons from Rural Disaster Recoveries in Nepal
Jeremy Spoon
Disaster recovery is multidimensional and takes time depending on vulnerabilities. Resilience relies on adaptive capacity or the ability and intention to recover. Nepal’s catastrophic 2015 earthquakes and aftershocks provide critical ...Read More