Social Science & Policy
The Social Science and Policy of Coastal Resilience program area is a topic-focused area under which ICAR will target resources and facilitate collaboration to address the human dimensions of coastal resilience.
The program area includes investigation of social and policy phenomena within a wide range of environments (e.g., organizational, associational, governmental, networks) and at all scales (e.g., individual, household, group, regional, national, and international).
The topics addressed within this program area necessarily are often cross-cutting with the other ICAR program areas and are illustrated by the following quote:
Connecting natural system data, built environment data, and social-behavioral data is essential … it comes down generating insights and knowledge about the impacts on people and the systems which sustain them … it is a worthy endeavor to pursue actionable information relative to well-being, pain, suffering, and longevity of people … and concepts such as justice, access, equity, opportunity, representation, and governance should be often considered in the research enterprise
The program area supports and facilitates research, engagement, and education efforts related to Vulnerable & Medically Fragile Populations, Risk Perceptions & Social Behavior, Preparedness & Recovery, Public Policy & Governance, and Social-Environmental Justice. More specifically, the program area addresses interests across the following areas:
Click on any of the below topics to see a list of subtopics of interest
- Household Adaptation & Response
- Social-Environment Justice
- Risk
- Vulnerable Populations
- Recovery & Preparedness
- Emergency Planning & Management
- Government, Governance, & Coordination
- Policy & Programs
- Ecosystems Management
- Data, Methods, & Approaches
- Evacuations
- Modeling & Gaming
- Planning
- Economics & Insurance
- Business
- Migration & Retreat
- Refugees & Displaced Populations
- Critical Infrastructure
- Military & Defense
- Adaptation Perceptions & Behavior
- Capacity & Costs to Adapt
- Sociology & Psychology of Adaptation
- Adaptation Justice
- Segregation & Disparate Impacts
- Housing, Opportunities, & Access
- Recurrent Flooding, Health, & Education Access
- Environmental Exposure
- Risk Communication
- Risk Perceptions
- Risk Assessment
- Defining & Mapping Vulnerability
- Medically Fragile Populations
- Refugees & Internally Displace Populations
- Traditionally Underserved Populations
- Psychological Impacts
- Non-profits in Preparedness and Recovery
- Food Networks & Distribution
- Community Recovery & Disparate Impacts
- Housing Stock Recovery, Speed and Equity
- Supply Chains
- Material Convergence
- Documenting & Recording Recovery Efforts
- Emergency Management & Preparedness Culture
- Lessons Learned
- Exercising & SMEs
- Coordination with NGOs
- Long-term Recovery
- Material Convergence & Supply Chain
- Government Relations & Communications
- Public Finance
- Public-Private Partnerships & Coordination
- Regional Governance & Coordinated Response
- Coordination with Federal Programs & Federalism
- Environmental Policy & Regulation
- Citizen Input & Action
- Policy Formation & Legality
- Mitigation Investments
- Public Services
- Parks & Recreation
- Urban Forests & Marshland Restoration as Policy
- Co-benefits Ecological, Socio-Cultural, Economic
- Bay & River Health Partnerships
- Living Shorelines, Perceptions & Adoption
- Content Analysis, Analytics, & Big Data
- Statistical Analysis
- Survey & Elicitation of Data, Populations & Organizations
- Indicators, Measurement, & Mapping Concepts
- Optimization
- Systems Modeling & System Dynamics & SOS
- Agent Based Modeling & Discrete Event Simulation
- Evacuation Behavior, Timing, Routing
- Sheltering, Medical Needs, Pets
- Evacuation Zones
- Evacuation Orders & Messaging
- Congregate Care, Vulnerable Pops, & Students
- Participatory Model Building
- Game Design, Building, Testing
- Comprehensive Planning
- Land Use and Planning
- Property Value, Taxes
- Economic Development & Productivity
- Economics of Adaptation
- Insurance Affordability & Policy Adoption
- Workforce Development
- Financing Investments & Response
- Business & Institutional Continuity Planning
- Cost of Responding, Competitiveness
- Business Development
- Tourism, Shipbuilding, Government Services
- Impact on Recruitment & Retention
- Migration of Homes & Business, Timing
- Managed Retreat
- Property Buy-outs & Greenspace
- Societal Migration & Shifting Urban Centers
- Refugees & Internally Displaced People
- Societal Stress from Changing Environment
- Competition for Resources
- Modeling Longer-term Migration & Population Movements
- Defining Criticality
- Identification & Measurement
- Dependencies & Interdependencies
- Safety-net Health Systems
- Portability of Information
- Impacts & Response of Military Households
- Planning Resilience w Surrounding Communities
- Military Readiness & Evacuation
- Stability, Conflict, & Regional Governance
- Cyber to Destabilization Fragile Coastal Regions
- NATO and Partners
- International Relations & Cooperation to Respond to Changes