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Geosciences
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Human-environmental interactions, natural hazards and disasters, social vulnerability, disaster resilience, modeling risk and vulnerability, GIS, geospatial analysis, global environmental change related hazards.
Office: 2046G Haley Center
Address:
2050 Beard Eaves Coliseum
Auburn, AL 36849
Phone: (334) 844-3418
Fax: (334) 844-3409
E-Mail: cgburton@auburn.edu
- Burton C.G. and Silva V. (2016). Assessing Integrated Earthquake Risk in OpenQuake with an Application to Mainland Portugal. Earthquake Spectra, 32(3): 1383-1403.
- Rufat, S., Tate, E. C., Burton C.G. and Sayeed Maroof, A. (2015). Social Vulnerability to Floods: Review of Case Studies and Implications for Measurement. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 14(4): 470–486.
- Burton C.G. (2015). A Validation of Metrics for Community Resilience to Natural Hazards and Disasters using the Recovery from Hurricane Katrina as a Case Study. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 150 (1): 67–86.
- Burton, C.G., Mitchell, J, T. and Cutter, S.L. (2011). Evaluating Post Katrina Recovery in Mississippi with Repeat Photography. Disasters, 35(3): 488-509.
- Cutter, S.L., Burton, C.G. and Emrich, C. (2010). Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 7(1): 1-22.