Alex Greer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4116295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Greer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Greer |
| SIGNATURE | GREER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5910-1637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Crime on Postbuyout Open Space
In the aftermath of environmental disasters, communities across the globe are implementing household relocation programs as hazard mitigation strategies. In the United States, these programs are known as buyouts, which relocate people and structures out of high-risk areas, managing the acquired land as open space. Typically, buyout open spaces are managed as vacant lots, which more generally are associated with increased crime and blight. Using a…
The Influence of Power on Post-Buyout Land Management Practices
U.S. government agencies execute home relocation programs, known as buyouts, in flood-prone areas to reduce hazard exposure. By converting the buyout properties into open space, these governmental agencies assume ownership and management responsibilities. As with all landscapes, the post-buyout landscape reflects power dynamics and institutional forces that shape how the land is managed, perceived, and used. For acquired properties, historic hous…
Flashpoints between wildfire recovery & mitigation in northern California
Navigating dual hazards
When do households evacuate? Hurricane evacuation timing during the Covid-19 pandemic
In coastal areas, the primary protective action against hurricanes is evacuation. Decisions to evacuate, however, are often made with incomplete information about storm impact zones or timing. Previous studies have provided rich findings on what leads households evacuate, but when households evacuate has not been sufficiently addressed in the literature. This is of particular concern when household evacuation decisions are complicated by addition…
Modeling Household Earthquake Hazard Adjustment Intentions
While existing literature has explored how hazard experience, salience, and demographics characteristics shape threat appraisal and hazard adjustment intentions, this study expands on past studies by exploring how additional factors such as qualitative characteristics of the hazard, political ideology, and oil entanglements shape threat appraisals, coping appraisals, and adjustment intentions in response to a techna hazard. This study builds on p…
A Serial Mediation Model Exploring the Impact of High Performance Human Resource Practices on Public Sector Performance through Intermediate Employee Attitudes
Poor performing fire departments are often attributed to managerial deficiencies such as ineffective communication, training, and absence of relevant standard operating guidelines. Despite this, research on HRM in the fire service is lacking. Adopting a social exchange approach, we test a serial mediation model which contends that departments can enhance performance levels by adopting High-Performance Human Resource Practices (HPHRPs), that influ…
Biophilia as climate justice for post-buyout land management
Upheaval”
A growing body of literature demonstrates that both place attachment and social capital play considerable, and likely interdependent, roles in disaster recovery. This paper contributes to our understanding of these constructs by presenting findings from a longitudinal, mixed‐methods study of communities impacted by a home buyout program implemented in New York after Hurricane Sandy ( N = 111). Results suggest a dynamic balance between place depen…
Drivers of Household Risk Perceptions and Adjustment Intentions to Tornado Hazards in Oklahoma
Tornadoes are responsible for considerable property damage and loss of life across Oklahoma. While several studies have explored drivers of tornado adjustment behaviors, their results are not consistent in terms of their significance and direction. To address this shortcoming in the literature, we surveyed households using a disproportionate stratified sampling procedure from counties in Oklahoma that frequently experience tornado threats to expl…
Does etiology matter? Exploring attitudes towards tornado and earthquake hazards
From Hazard Mitigation to Climate Adaptation
With the onset of climate change resulting in more frequent hazard events and coastal inundation, communities are considering buyouts as a tool for climate adaptation. Despite a growing body of research, there has never been a systematic review of the literature on buyout programs, although our ability to implement buyouts successfully relies on a thorough understanding of buyout policy, design, implementation, and impacts. In this systematic lit…
What Matters? Exploring Drivers of Basic and Complex Adjustments to Tornadoes Among College Students
Scholars have produced several theories and models to explain why individuals adjust to hazards. While findings from these studies are informative, studies have not considered how threat and coping appraisals may have differential effects on varying types of hazard adjustments, or how these findings may generalize to vulnerable populations. This study expands on the Protection Motivation Theory to explore the factors that shape hazard adjustment …
Perceived Stakeholder Information Credibility and Hazard Adjustments
Oklahoma residents have experienced an increase in moderate-scale earthquakes (magnitude 3–5) regularly since 2011. Recently, several scientific reports showed that seismic activities are likely associated with oil companies’ wastewater injection wells. Given that residents have little experience with this induced earthquake hazard and the potential for significant earthquakes, there is considerable risk. Additionally, while residents experience …
Home buyouts
Purpose Home buyout programs are typically funded by the federal government and implemented by local agencies. How these agencies design and implement buyouts has considerable impacts on participating households and communities, making understanding the internal processes of implementing agencies a critical component of buyout research. This study addresses this issue by exploring the early design and implementation phases of a buyout program in …
Place attachment in disaster studies
The Role of Networks, Information, and Technology in Reducing Seismic Risk
Maintaining the status quo
Earthquakes have become more common in Oklahoma. In the face of new hazards, previous studies suggest that communities should incorporate resilience strategies into their planning in order to cope with emerging hazards. Due to their novelty, particularly in relation to other hazards in the state, we know little about how emergency managers are planning for earthquakes. This research uses in-depth interviews to explore how key stakeholders in loca…
Unseen potential
The Devil Is in the Details
Federal housing recovery policy bounds many of the decisions made by households after a disaster. Within this policy domain, home buyout programs are increasingly used to encourage residents to permanently relocate out of areas considered at risk for future hazards. While buyouts offer homeowners and governments potential benefits, research exploring the impacts of these policies is limited. In this paper, we present an in-depth examination of th…
Pesticides, Sheep Dips and Science
Journal Article Pesticides, Sheep Dips and Science Get access ALAN GREER ALAN GREER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 3, July 1998, Pages 411–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028806 Published: 01 July 1998
The Devil Is in the Details
Federal housing recovery policy bounds many of the decisions made by households after a disaster. Within this policy domain, home buyout programs are increasingly used to encourage residents to permanently relocate out of areas considered at risk for future hazards. While buyouts offer homeowners and governments potential benefits, research exploring the impacts of these policies is limited. In this paper, we present an in-depth examination of th…
Unseen potential
Place attachment in disaster studies
Upheaval”
A growing body of literature demonstrates that both place attachment and social capital play considerable, and likely interdependent, roles in disaster recovery. This paper contributes to our understanding of these constructs by presenting findings from a longitudinal, mixed‐methods study of communities impacted by a home buyout program implemented in New York after Hurricane Sandy ( N = 111). Results suggest a dynamic balance between place depen…
Maintaining the status quo
Earthquakes have become more common in Oklahoma. In the face of new hazards, previous studies suggest that communities should incorporate resilience strategies into their planning in order to cope with emerging hazards. Due to their novelty, particularly in relation to other hazards in the state, we know little about how emergency managers are planning for earthquakes. This research uses in-depth interviews to explore how key stakeholders in loca…
Pesticides, Sheep Dips and Science
Journal Article Pesticides, Sheep Dips and Science Get access ALAN GREER ALAN GREER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 3, July 1998, Pages 411–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028806 Published: 01 July 1998
The Devil Is in the Details
Federal housing recovery policy bounds many of the decisions made by households after a disaster. Within this policy domain, home buyout programs are increasingly used to encourage residents to permanently relocate out of areas considered at risk for future hazards. While buyouts offer homeowners and governments potential benefits, research exploring the impacts of these policies is limited. In this paper, we present an in-depth examination of th…
Unseen potential
The Role of Networks, Information, and Technology in Reducing Seismic Risk
Maintaining the status quo
Earthquakes have become more common in Oklahoma. In the face of new hazards, previous studies suggest that communities should incorporate resilience strategies into their planning in order to cope with emerging hazards. Due to their novelty, particularly in relation to other hazards in the state, we know little about how emergency managers are planning for earthquakes. This research uses in-depth interviews to explore how key stakeholders in loca…
Perceived Stakeholder Information Credibility and Hazard Adjustments
Oklahoma residents have experienced an increase in moderate-scale earthquakes (magnitude 3–5) regularly since 2011. Recently, several scientific reports showed that seismic activities are likely associated with oil companies’ wastewater injection wells. Given that residents have little experience with this induced earthquake hazard and the potential for significant earthquakes, there is considerable risk. Additionally, while residents experience …
Home buyouts
Purpose Home buyout programs are typically funded by the federal government and implemented by local agencies. How these agencies design and implement buyouts has considerable impacts on participating households and communities, making understanding the internal processes of implementing agencies a critical component of buyout research. This study addresses this issue by exploring the early design and implementation phases of a buyout program in …
Place attachment in disaster studies
What Matters? Exploring Drivers of Basic and Complex Adjustments to Tornadoes Among College Students
Scholars have produced several theories and models to explain why individuals adjust to hazards. While findings from these studies are informative, studies have not considered how threat and coping appraisals may have differential effects on varying types of hazard adjustments, or how these findings may generalize to vulnerable populations. This study expands on the Protection Motivation Theory to explore the factors that shape hazard adjustment …
Drivers of Household Risk Perceptions and Adjustment Intentions to Tornado Hazards in Oklahoma
Tornadoes are responsible for considerable property damage and loss of life across Oklahoma. While several studies have explored drivers of tornado adjustment behaviors, their results are not consistent in terms of their significance and direction. To address this shortcoming in the literature, we surveyed households using a disproportionate stratified sampling procedure from counties in Oklahoma that frequently experience tornado threats to expl…
Does etiology matter? Exploring attitudes towards tornado and earthquake hazards
From Hazard Mitigation to Climate Adaptation
With the onset of climate change resulting in more frequent hazard events and coastal inundation, communities are considering buyouts as a tool for climate adaptation. Despite a growing body of research, there has never been a systematic review of the literature on buyout programs, although our ability to implement buyouts successfully relies on a thorough understanding of buyout policy, design, implementation, and impacts. In this systematic lit…
Modeling Household Earthquake Hazard Adjustment Intentions
While existing literature has explored how hazard experience, salience, and demographics characteristics shape threat appraisal and hazard adjustment intentions, this study expands on past studies by exploring how additional factors such as qualitative characteristics of the hazard, political ideology, and oil entanglements shape threat appraisals, coping appraisals, and adjustment intentions in response to a techna hazard. This study builds on p…
A Serial Mediation Model Exploring the Impact of High Performance Human Resource Practices on Public Sector Performance through Intermediate Employee Attitudes
Poor performing fire departments are often attributed to managerial deficiencies such as ineffective communication, training, and absence of relevant standard operating guidelines. Despite this, research on HRM in the fire service is lacking. Adopting a social exchange approach, we test a serial mediation model which contends that departments can enhance performance levels by adopting High-Performance Human Resource Practices (HPHRPs), that influ…
Biophilia as climate justice for post-buyout land management
Upheaval”
A growing body of literature demonstrates that both place attachment and social capital play considerable, and likely interdependent, roles in disaster recovery. This paper contributes to our understanding of these constructs by presenting findings from a longitudinal, mixed‐methods study of communities impacted by a home buyout program implemented in New York after Hurricane Sandy ( N = 111). Results suggest a dynamic balance between place depen…
Navigating dual hazards
When do households evacuate? Hurricane evacuation timing during the Covid-19 pandemic
In coastal areas, the primary protective action against hurricanes is evacuation. Decisions to evacuate, however, are often made with incomplete information about storm impact zones or timing. Previous studies have provided rich findings on what leads households evacuate, but when households evacuate has not been sufficiently addressed in the literature. This is of particular concern when household evacuation decisions are complicated by addition…
The Influence of Power on Post-Buyout Land Management Practices
U.S. government agencies execute home relocation programs, known as buyouts, in flood-prone areas to reduce hazard exposure. By converting the buyout properties into open space, these governmental agencies assume ownership and management responsibilities. As with all landscapes, the post-buyout landscape reflects power dynamics and institutional forces that shape how the land is managed, perceived, and used. For acquired properties, historic hous…
Flashpoints between wildfire recovery & mitigation in northern California
Crime on Postbuyout Open Space
In the aftermath of environmental disasters, communities across the globe are implementing household relocation programs as hazard mitigation strategies. In the United States, these programs are known as buyouts, which relocate people and structures out of high-risk areas, managing the acquired land as open space. Typically, buyout open spaces are managed as vacant lots, which more generally are associated with increased crime and blight. Using a…
Disaster Management and Resilience (16 works) · Business (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)