RI Publications
Publication Highlights
Paci-Green, R., Varchetta, A., McFarlane, K., Iyer, P., Goyeneche, M. 2020. Comprehensive school safety policy: A global baseline survey, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101399.
Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan for Whatcom County (FEMA Review Copy)
FULL REPORT (939 pages) available on county website.
Comprehensive School Safety Policy: Summary Report for Policy Makers on Trends in the Asia Pacific Region
Completed through research grant with Risk RED.
FULL REPORT (67 pages)
SUMMARY (8 pages)
Towards Safer School Construction: A Community-Based Approach
Completed through research grant with Risk RED.
FULL REPORT (104 pages) available on PreventionWeb.net, resource file 45179
Safer School Construction: Overview (14:09, YouTube)
Stage 1: Prepare (13:02, YouTube); Stage 2: Plan (10:34, YouTube)
Stage 3: Design (14:04, YouTube); Stage 4: Construct (12:00, YouTube)
Stage 5: Maintain (15:53, YouTube)
Safer Schools, Resilience Communities: A Comparative Assessment of School Safety after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Completed through research grant with Risk RED.
FULL REPORT (38 pages, 10MB)
SUMMARY (3 pages, 0.5MB)
Cascadia Rising: Cascadia Subduction Zone Catastrophic Earthquake and Tsunami Functional Exercise Scenario Document
Cascadia Rising Exercise Scenario document (high resolution)
Cascadia_Rising_low.pdf (low resolution)
Other Publications
Washington Food Vulnerability in Emergencies Study
Regional Market Analysis of Food Security and Regional Resilience
Washington Food Vulnerability in Emergencies Study
Tracking Trash: An Analysis of Marine Debris from the Olympic Coast Clean-up
Oregon Earthquake Study
Analysis of Oregon's Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub (report)
Washington State Seismic Policy
Washington State Seismic Mitigation Policy Gap Analysis (report)
Public Preparedness for Disasters
Who Depends Upon You Campaign Assessment (report)
Guatemala
Situation Assessment: Prospects for Urban DRR in Guatemala (working paper)
Report on Earthquake-Induced Landslides, Guatemala City (working paper)
Haiti Social Impacts of the Jan 12 2010 earthquake
Earthquake Spectra Special Issue, October 2011, Vol 27(S1), pp. S447-S462
School Safety and Educational Continuity
School Preparedness: Lessons from California Schools and the 2008 ShakeOut Earthquake Drill (presentation)
Lessons Learned from the Great Southern California ShakeOut (working paper)
2008 ShakeOut School Readiness Final Report (report)
Disasters and the Business Sector
Business Recovery Related to High Frequency Natural Hazard Events (report)
Lewis County Business Sector Preparedness and Flood Impacts from the 2007 Winter Storm (presentation)
Resilient Businesses: How to Make Your Business Disaster Resilient (infosheet)
Post-Disaster Housing
Post-Disaster Temporary Housing Needs (policy brief)
Impediments to Recovery in New Orleans (article)
Food Security
Energy, Agriculture and Food (working paper)
Kenya — Starvation and Food Insecurity in the Land of Plenty (field report)
Issues in Emergency Food Distribution for Whatcom County, WA (report)
Reflections on Agriculture and Food Security, Farm Living and Livelihoods, and Urban-Rural Encroachment:
Whatcom County Agriculture’s Biggest Challenge (essay)
Food Security and Sustainability: Ways Forward Through Cooperative Production and Marketing (report)
Food Security and Sustainability: A Crisis of Culture and Policy (report)
Sustainability @ WWU
Timeline of Sustainability Initiatives at WWU and Whatcom Co. (poster)
Timeline of Sustainability Initiatives at WWU and Whatcom Co. (summary)