Russell Blessing

Biographic Data

ID1405742
NAMERussell Blessing
GIVEN NAMESRussell
FAMILY NAMEBlessing
SIGNATUREBLESSING R
AFFILIATIONSTexas A&M University at Galveston
ORCID0000-0003-4973-4032
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Rectifying a flood data desert one step at a time

    Keri K Stephens, Samanta Varela Castro et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Communication…2024

    Attention to public problems is increasingly being driven by data. Given that data is used as a communication tool, a lack of data may further exacerbate existing inequities when allocating public resources, especially around infrastructure. Using a co-creation and power-sharing approach to community involvement, this field report describes how a rural community and academic partners worked together to collect photo and video data to create a com…

  • Non-locality and spillover effects of residential flood damage on community recovery

    Open AccessJunwei Ma, Russell Blessing et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2024

  • Investigating ways to better communicate flood risk

    Keri K Stephens, Russell Blessing et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Hazards2023References: 5

    Flooding is increasing worldwide, and many current maps and models available to help people understand their risk are not designed with risk communication best practices in mind. This study is one of the first to combine comparative U.S. flood modelling approaches with measures of perceived flood map usability and accuracy to begin to understand how maps may be used to communicate flood risk. Using a survey of residents in Texas, U.S. counties af…

  • Disentangling the impacts of human and environmental change on catchment response during Hurricane Harvey

    Open AccessAntonia Sebastian, Avantika Gori et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Flooding is a function of hydrologic, climatologic, and land use characteristics. However, the relative contribution of these factors to flood risk over the long-term is uncertain. In response to this knowledge gap, this study quantifies how urbanization and climatological trends influenced flooding in the greater Houston region during Hurricane Harvey. The region—characterized by extreme precipitation events, low topographic relief, and clay-dom…

  • Valuing floodplain protection and avoidance in a coastal watershed

    Open AccessRussell Blessing, Samuel D Brody et al.ARTICLEDisasters2019Cited by: 1References: 7

    Flood-related losses in the United States are increasing despite large-scale mitigation efforts. To offset the rising cost of floods, the US Congress passed legislation in 2014 that will augment insurance premiums to make the National Flood Insurance Program more actuarially sound. Consequently, there is interest in lowering flood-related costs to the homeowner, both in terms of premiums and damage. This study addresses the issue by integrating p…

  • Understanding the motivations of coastal residents to voluntarily purchase federal flood insurance

    Samuel D Brody, Wesley E Highfield et al.ARTICLEJournal of Risk Research2016Cited by: 8References: 2

    Federally-backed flood insurance is the primary mechanism by which residents in the United States (US) prepare for and recover from floods. While there is a growing literature on the general uptake of flood insurance, little work has been done to address the factors motivating residents to voluntarily buy and maintain federally-based insurance policies. We address this issue by conducting a survey of coastal residents in four localities in Texas …