Reducing Vulnerability and Improving Sustainability to Natural Disasters at the Natural, Built, Social, and Economic Interface

Funding Year: 2012-2013

The purpose of this GCRT was to create an interdisciplinary, multidimensional understanding of how communities—in concert with the natural systems within which they interactively exist—may be made less vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters.

Principal Investigators:

  • Craig Trumbo, Department of Journalism and Technical Communication
  • Lori Peek, Department of Sociology
  • Melinda Laituri, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability