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Hurricane Katrina surge damage in Fairhope, AL. The key to building resilient communities is understanding where the risk lies.

Homes along the Mississippi coast that were catastrophically damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 remain un-rebuilt today. The studey of resilience encompasses why communities recover from damaging hazard events differentially.

Stakeholders and community leaders in Nepal working together to plan for resilient communities to natural hazards and disasters.

Graduate students collecting data to develop databases to improve buidling infrastructure using mobile technologies in the field.