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X-WR-CALNAME:ESS Seminar Series: Dr. Kim Waddell “Integrating Resilience 
 and Equity into Disaster Science: An Example from an American Territory in
  the Caribbean"
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us Thursday - October 20th for our Autumn Seminar S
 eries with our guest speaker: Kim Waddell\, Ph.D. A special thanks to Prof
 essor Elliott White\, Jr. for bringing this speaker to us for this seminar
 .\n\n \n\nDEPARTMENT OF EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE\n\nSEMINAR SERIES AUTUMN 2022
 \n\nIN-PERSON EVENT  \n\n12:00 - 1:20pm\n\nThursday\, October 20\, 2022\n\
 nPolya Hall - Turing Auditorium (Room 111)\n\n \n\nKim Waddell\, Ph.D\n\nP
 roject Director\, VI-EPSCoR\n\nUniversity of the Virgin Islands\n\n \n\n
 “Integrating Resilience and Equity into Disaster Science: An Example fro
 m an American Territory in the Caribbean” \n\nThe Territory of the Unite
 d States Virgin Islands (USVI)\, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico\, and man
 y other small island states in the Northeastern Caribbean were devastated 
 by two Category 5 Hurricanes in September of 2017. As part of the response
  and recovery process\, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA
 ) requested an expansive update of the Territory’s Hazard Mitigation Pla
 n (HMP)- a plan that\, in this update\, would integrate elements of resili
 ence\, equity\, and climate change impacts into the planning effort.\n\nTh
 ese elements have not been identified or integrated into previous HMPs in 
 the Territory or in the vast majority of HMPs for other states and jurisdi
 ctions. The 3-year planning effort has led to insights about island govern
 ance\, human capacity\, colonial legacies\, and socio-economic inequities 
 that can be exacerbated by federal policy and practices following disaster
 s. These inequities\, persistent during the best of times\, become severe 
 when human and financial resources are stretched thin\, as basic services 
 and societal functions struggle to resume. The damages from the 2017 hurri
 canes were estimated at $8B for a territory of 100\,000 people and a GDP o
 f $4B. This level of devastation was followed by a slow response & recover
 y\, and then the pandemic. All these disruptions coincide with a loss of 1
 8 percent of the population according to the 2020 US Census – based on a
  social vulnerability analysis we conducted\; the population losses were m
 ost pronounced in our most vulnerable (low income) communities--reminiscen
 t of the demographic shifts observed in New Orleans post-Katrina.\n\nOur r
 esearch team has developed recommendations to address many of these inequi
 ties but have recognized the difficulties of promoting resilience thinking
  and strategies. Many of these approaches require systems thinking\, stron
 g operational governance\, and good data management to rigorously inform r
 isk mitigation. Such practices are difficult to understand\, implement and
  sustain in rural and remote communities\, but especially in small island 
 tourism-based economies. The team’s findings have implications for how w
 e think about applying Disaster Science principles and practices\, and esp
 ecially identifying what is needed to implement resilience and equity into
  projects developed to mitigate hazards for the natural\, built\, and huma
 n environments.\n\n \n\nBio\n\nKim Waddell is the project lead for the nex
 t US Virgin Islands Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Plan Update with supp
 ort from FEMA and the Virgin Islands Emergency Management Agency (VITEMA).
  He is also the Director for the Virgin Islands Established Program for St
 imulating Competitive Research (VI-EPSCoR)—a National Science Foundation
 -supported research capacity building program based at the University of t
 he Virgin Islands that focuses on land-based impacts on marine ecosystem h
 ealth and function in a time of Climate Change\, as well as STEM education
  research and opportunities for underrepresented minority students from K-
 12 through MS degrees. Prior to that\, Kim was a Senior Program Officer wi
 th the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine. Dr. Wa
 ddell served as a study director for over a dozen National Academies repor
 ts on agriculture\, fisheries and other natural resource management topics
 . Kim received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Sou
 th Carolina and his B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of C
 alifornia\, Santa Cruz.
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LOCATION:Polya Hall\, 111
SUMMARY:ESS Seminar Series: Dr. Kim Waddell “Integrating Resilience and E
 quity into Disaster Science: An Example from an American Territory in the 
 Caribbean"
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