Senior Researcher
The objective of this role is to support community resilience planning through the development of methods and tools that evaluate the economic impacts of disruptive events and persistent stressors, while accounting for stakeholder perceptions and associated decisions related to future event uncertainty and co-benefit (co-cost) valuation. There will be special focus on criteria and methods to improve the resilient performance of structural systems in the built environment while maintaining cost-effectiveness and supporting community-defined objectives in addition to resilience.
It is expected that the PREP researcher will engage in all steps of the research process, including but not limited to: literature review, data collection, data analysis, preparation of reports and archival journal articles, as well as reporting and communication with stakeholders.
Sustainability-Resilience Framework Fellow
Pursuing a graduate degree in Economics, Social Science, Policy, Environmental Science, Law, or related field.
- At least one year of relevant research experience.
- Background in econometrics or statistics and at least two of the following areas:
- Applied microeconomics, Climate change, Decision-science or behavioral-science, Environmental economics, Environmental Law, Environmental Science, Non-market valuation, Policy, Regional economic, Risk and uncertainty, Social Science, Strong oral and written communication skills.
Collaborate on data and methods to improve the methodology for measuring economic impact of community resilience planning, which is organized around the performance metric of ‘cost plus loss’ minimization – i.e., the economically optimal level of investment in prevention and mitigation activities to reduce future disturbance and disaster-related losses, as well as related expenditures that minimize the combined investment cost plus the value of expected losses.
- Create a corpus of papers that discuss frameworks relevant topics .
- Create a review document of frameworks for: Climate change adaptation, GHG mitigation, Community resilience, Combinations thereof
- Compare and contrast the different frameworks within the review document of where they are compatible and where there need to be improvements to create one unified framework.