Rae Zimmerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4392381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rae Zimmerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rae |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmerman |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wagner College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5825-3383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework in six US cities
As urban populations continue to grow through the 21st century, more people are projected to be at risk of exposure to climate change-induced extreme events. To investigate the complexity of urban floods, this study applied an interlinked social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) vulnerability framework by developing an urban flood vulnerability index for six US cities. Indicators were selected to reflect and illustrate exposure, sensitivity…
Evaluating Knowledge to Support Climate Action
As states, cities, tribes, and private interests cope with climate damages and seek to increase preparedness and resilience, they will need to navigate myriad choices and options available to them. Making these choices in ways that identify pathways for climate action that support their development objectives will require constructive public dialogue, community participation, and flexible and ongoing access to science- and experience-based knowle…
Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages
It has become increasingly clear that cities will have to simultaneously undertake both adaptation and mitigation in response to accelerating climate change and the growing demands for meaningful climate action. Here we examine the connections between climate mitigation and climate adaptation, specifically, between low‐carbon energy systems and extreme events. The article specifically addresses the question, how do responses to extreme climate ri…
Interdependent Infrastructure as Linked Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (Setss) to Address Lock‐in and Enhance Resilience
Traditional infrastructure adaptation to extreme weather events (and now climate change) has typically been techno‐centric and heavily grounded in robustness—the capacity to prevent or minimize disruptions via a risk‐based approach that emphasizes control, armoring, and strengthening (e.g., raising the height of levees). However, climate and nonclimate challenges facing infrastructure are not purely technological. Ecological and social systems al…
Promoting resilience for food, energy, and water interdependencies
Climate change mitigation and adaptation in North American cities
Resource allocation, emergency response capability, and infrastructure concentration around vulnerable sites
Public and private decision‐makers continue to seek risk‐based approaches to allocate funds to help communities respond to disasters, accidents, and terrorist attacks involving critical infrastructure facilities. The requirements for emergency response capability depend both upon risks within a region's jurisdiction and mutual aid agreements that have been made with other regions. In general, regions in close proximity to infrastructure would ben…
Risk communication for catastrophic events
Focus group methods are adapted here to address two important needs for risk communication: (1) to provide approaches to risk communication in very extreme and catastrophic events, and (2) to obtain risk communication content within the specific catastrophe area of chemical and biological attacks. Focus groups were designed and conducted according to well-established protocols using hypothetical sarin and smallpox attacks resulting in a chemical …
Themes and New Directions
Mass Transit Infrastructure and Urban Health
Fat of the Land. Garbage in New York
Social Implications of Infrastructure Network Interactions
(2001). Social Implications of Infrastructure Network Interactions. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 97-119
From the Guest Editors
The European Cities and Technology Reader; The American Cities and Technology Reader; The Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader
When Studies Collide
Environmental epidemiology increasingly is being used as a foundation for environmental health policy. Since environmental epidemiologic studies have increased dramatically in number, approaches are needed to interpret them. Two approaches used in epidemiology are rules of evidence and meta‐analysis. Rules of evidence pertain to the consistency, strength, uniqueness, and medical basis of the relationship between disease and risk factors such as c…
Social Equity and Environmental Risk 1
Social equity has become an important concern of the environmental movement over the past decade. The equity issue is analyzed here for practically all of the inactive hazardous waste disposal sites on the National Priorities List (NPL) regulated under the Comprehensive Response Compensation and Liability Act and its 1986 Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (CERCLA/ SARA). Two dimensions of equity are emphasized, namely, site location re…
Governmental Management of Chemical Risk
The Relationship of Emergency Management to Governmental Policies on Man-Made Technological Disasters
Emergency or management has traditionally emphasized natural hazards rather than man-made technological hazards. Section 102 of the Disaster Relief Act of 1974, defined and major disaster clearly in terms of natural phenomena, though some may be man-induced. Non-natural hazards are generalized as other catastrophe. Amendments proposed in 1982 would have given greater priority to non-natural hazards for funding if they had passed. Very few declara…
Formation of New Organizations to Manage Risk 1
Differences in statutory mandates, traditions, and attitudes toward risk cause agencies to develop different standards for the same substances. As a response to this fragmentation and uncertainty, common to environment decisions, new organizations emerge to try to coordinate the agencies but usually are created to perform a specific task rather than to coordinate agencies. For these new organizational forms to succeed, they must be in place befor…
Evaluating public attitudes toward water quality through a survey
Climate change mitigation and adaptation in North American cities
Themes and New Directions
Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages
It has become increasingly clear that cities will have to simultaneously undertake both adaptation and mitigation in response to accelerating climate change and the growing demands for meaningful climate action. Here we examine the connections between climate mitigation and climate adaptation, specifically, between low‐carbon energy systems and extreme events. The article specifically addresses the question, how do responses to extreme climate ri…
Promoting resilience for food, energy, and water interdependencies
Resource allocation, emergency response capability, and infrastructure concentration around vulnerable sites
Public and private decision‐makers continue to seek risk‐based approaches to allocate funds to help communities respond to disasters, accidents, and terrorist attacks involving critical infrastructure facilities. The requirements for emergency response capability depend both upon risks within a region's jurisdiction and mutual aid agreements that have been made with other regions. In general, regions in close proximity to infrastructure would ben…
Evaluating public attitudes toward water quality through a survey
Formation of New Organizations to Manage Risk 1
Differences in statutory mandates, traditions, and attitudes toward risk cause agencies to develop different standards for the same substances. As a response to this fragmentation and uncertainty, common to environment decisions, new organizations emerge to try to coordinate the agencies but usually are created to perform a specific task rather than to coordinate agencies. For these new organizational forms to succeed, they must be in place befor…
The Relationship of Emergency Management to Governmental Policies on Man-Made Technological Disasters
Emergency or management has traditionally emphasized natural hazards rather than man-made technological hazards. Section 102 of the Disaster Relief Act of 1974, defined and major disaster clearly in terms of natural phenomena, though some may be man-induced. Non-natural hazards are generalized as other catastrophe. Amendments proposed in 1982 would have given greater priority to non-natural hazards for funding if they had passed. Very few declara…
Governmental Management of Chemical Risk
Social Equity and Environmental Risk 1
Social equity has become an important concern of the environmental movement over the past decade. The equity issue is analyzed here for practically all of the inactive hazardous waste disposal sites on the National Priorities List (NPL) regulated under the Comprehensive Response Compensation and Liability Act and its 1986 Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (CERCLA/ SARA). Two dimensions of equity are emphasized, namely, site location re…
When Studies Collide
Environmental epidemiology increasingly is being used as a foundation for environmental health policy. Since environmental epidemiologic studies have increased dramatically in number, approaches are needed to interpret them. Two approaches used in epidemiology are rules of evidence and meta‐analysis. Rules of evidence pertain to the consistency, strength, uniqueness, and medical basis of the relationship between disease and risk factors such as c…
The European Cities and Technology Reader; The American Cities and Technology Reader; The Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader
Social Implications of Infrastructure Network Interactions
(2001). Social Implications of Infrastructure Network Interactions. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 97-119
From the Guest Editors
Fat of the Land. Garbage in New York
Mass Transit Infrastructure and Urban Health
Risk communication for catastrophic events
Focus group methods are adapted here to address two important needs for risk communication: (1) to provide approaches to risk communication in very extreme and catastrophic events, and (2) to obtain risk communication content within the specific catastrophe area of chemical and biological attacks. Focus groups were designed and conducted according to well-established protocols using hypothetical sarin and smallpox attacks resulting in a chemical …
Themes and New Directions
Climate change mitigation and adaptation in North American cities
Resource allocation, emergency response capability, and infrastructure concentration around vulnerable sites
Public and private decision‐makers continue to seek risk‐based approaches to allocate funds to help communities respond to disasters, accidents, and terrorist attacks involving critical infrastructure facilities. The requirements for emergency response capability depend both upon risks within a region's jurisdiction and mutual aid agreements that have been made with other regions. In general, regions in close proximity to infrastructure would ben…
Promoting resilience for food, energy, and water interdependencies
Interdependent Infrastructure as Linked Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (Setss) to Address Lock‐in and Enhance Resilience
Traditional infrastructure adaptation to extreme weather events (and now climate change) has typically been techno‐centric and heavily grounded in robustness—the capacity to prevent or minimize disruptions via a risk‐based approach that emphasizes control, armoring, and strengthening (e.g., raising the height of levees). However, climate and nonclimate challenges facing infrastructure are not purely technological. Ecological and social systems al…
Evaluating Knowledge to Support Climate Action
As states, cities, tribes, and private interests cope with climate damages and seek to increase preparedness and resilience, they will need to navigate myriad choices and options available to them. Making these choices in ways that identify pathways for climate action that support their development objectives will require constructive public dialogue, community participation, and flexible and ongoing access to science- and experience-based knowle…
Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages
It has become increasingly clear that cities will have to simultaneously undertake both adaptation and mitigation in response to accelerating climate change and the growing demands for meaningful climate action. Here we examine the connections between climate mitigation and climate adaptation, specifically, between low‐carbon energy systems and extreme events. The article specifically addresses the question, how do responses to extreme climate ri…
Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework in six US cities
As urban populations continue to grow through the 21st century, more people are projected to be at risk of exposure to climate change-induced extreme events. To investigate the complexity of urban floods, this study applied an interlinked social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) vulnerability framework by developing an urban flood vulnerability index for six US cities. Indicators were selected to reflect and illustrate exposure, sensitivity…
Business (15 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Computer security (6 works) · Ecology (5 works)