Stephanie E Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 967838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie E Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie E |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9383-7464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Implementing coastal adaptation: Assessing and explaining success by local governments in Nova Scotia, Canada
As coastal communities increasingly plan for climate change, there is a need to understand factors that influence whether planned actions get implemented. This study examines the implementation of coastal adaptation actions across Nova Scotia, Canada, the first province in the country to establish a regional policy framework to address adaptation by requiring municipalities to prepare Municipal Climate Change Action Plans (MCCAPs). Using the MCCA…
Business recovery from disasters: Lessons from natural hazards and the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper compares economic recovery in the COVID-19 pandemic with other types of disasters, at the scale of businesses. As countries around the world struggle to emerge from the pandemic, studies of business impact and recovery have proliferated; however, pandemic research is often undertaken without the benefit of insights from long-standing research on past large-scale disruptive events, such as floods, storms, and earthquakes. This paper bui…
A Community Impact Scale for Regional Disaster Planning with Transportation Disruption
This paper proposes a simple analytical scheme and associated qualitative impact scales that capture the spatially varying effects of a regional disaster. Large-scale disasters that affect many towns and cities pose particular challenges for emergency response planning. For example, disruption to transportation systems can impede regional supply chains of critical goods, thereby exacerbating the impacts suffered locally in communities. Convention…
Potential impacts of an impending oil spill
Consequences of oil spills: A review and framework for informing planning
Chang, S. E., J. Stone, K. Demes, and M. Piscitelli. 2014. Consequences of oil spills: a review and framework for informing planning. Ecology and Society 19(2): 26. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06406-190226
Economic and Planning Approaches to Natural Disasters
This article addresses the persistent problem of natural disasters and considers how economic analysis and planning can contribute toward disaster risk reduction. Giving examples of hurricane Katrina, and the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, it provides an overview of the natural disasters problem and social science research in the area, giving global trends and disaster trends since the last century. It then introduces economic approaches to…
Urban Growth and Long-Term Changes in Natural Hazard Risk
This paper explores the question of whether natural hazard risks for urban areas are growing or diminishing over time. While trends such as population growth in hazardous areas increase the potential for loss in disaster events, other factors, such as improved building codes, tend to reduce this risk. The net effects of such urban changes are examined through the use of simulation models that estimate disaster losses. In a comparative static appr…
ResilUS: A Community Based Disaster Resilience Model
A resilient community is one that does not experience serious degradation in critical services when a hazard occurs and, in the event of degradation or failure, recovers to a similar or better level of service in a reasonable amount of time. The most efficient means of making a community resilient is to make its critical services and capital robust – minimize damage/loss probability or the consequences from damage/loss through mitigation. If a co…
Urban disaster recovery: A measurement framework and its application to the 1995 Kobe earthquake
This paper provides a framework for assessing empirical patterns of urban disaster recovery through the use of statistical indicators. Such a framework is needed to develop systematic knowledge on how cities recover from disasters. The proposed framework addresses such issues as defining recovery, filtering out exogenous influences unrelated to the disaster, and making comparisons across disparate areas or events. It is applied to document how Ko…
Fostering resilience to extreme events within infrastructure systems: Characterizing decision contexts for mitigation and adaptation
A Framework to Quantitatively Assess and Enhance the Seismic Resilience of Communities
This paper presents a conceptual framework to define seismic resilience of communities and quantitative measures of resilience that can be useful for a coordinated research effort focusing on enhancing this resilience. This framework relies on the complementary measures of resilience: “Reduced failure probabilities,” “Reduced consequences from failures,” and “Reduced time to recovery.” The framework also includes quantitative measures of the “end…
Transportation Planning for Disasters: An Accessibility Approach
A methodology is developed in this paper for evaluating and enhancing the performance of urban transportation systems in the aftermath of a disaster. A performance measure is proposed for assessing overall and distributional impacts based on the concept of accessibility. The methodology is demonstrated with two case studies. The first focuses on passenger railroad disruption in the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan. An accessibility meas…
Disasters and transport systems: Loss, recovery and competition at the Port of Kobe after the 1995 earthquake
Regional Economic Structure and Capital Investment in the Built Physical Environment
Urban disaster recovery: A measurement framework and its application to the 1995 Kobe earthquake
This paper provides a framework for assessing empirical patterns of urban disaster recovery through the use of statistical indicators. Such a framework is needed to develop systematic knowledge on how cities recover from disasters. The proposed framework addresses such issues as defining recovery, filtering out exogenous influences unrelated to the disaster, and making comparisons across disparate areas or events. It is applied to document how Ko…
Fostering resilience to extreme events within infrastructure systems: Characterizing decision contexts for mitigation and adaptation
Disasters and transport systems: Loss, recovery and competition at the Port of Kobe after the 1995 earthquake
Transportation Planning for Disasters: An Accessibility Approach
A methodology is developed in this paper for evaluating and enhancing the performance of urban transportation systems in the aftermath of a disaster. A performance measure is proposed for assessing overall and distributional impacts based on the concept of accessibility. The methodology is demonstrated with two case studies. The first focuses on passenger railroad disruption in the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan. An accessibility meas…
ResilUS: A Community Based Disaster Resilience Model
A resilient community is one that does not experience serious degradation in critical services when a hazard occurs and, in the event of degradation or failure, recovers to a similar or better level of service in a reasonable amount of time. The most efficient means of making a community resilient is to make its critical services and capital robust – minimize damage/loss probability or the consequences from damage/loss through mitigation. If a co…
Urban Growth and Long-Term Changes in Natural Hazard Risk
This paper explores the question of whether natural hazard risks for urban areas are growing or diminishing over time. While trends such as population growth in hazardous areas increase the potential for loss in disaster events, other factors, such as improved building codes, tend to reduce this risk. The net effects of such urban changes are examined through the use of simulation models that estimate disaster losses. In a comparative static appr…
Regional Economic Structure and Capital Investment in the Built Physical Environment
Regional Economic Structure and Capital Investment in the Built Physical Environment
Disasters and transport systems: Loss, recovery and competition at the Port of Kobe after the 1995 earthquake
A Framework to Quantitatively Assess and Enhance the Seismic Resilience of Communities
This paper presents a conceptual framework to define seismic resilience of communities and quantitative measures of resilience that can be useful for a coordinated research effort focusing on enhancing this resilience. This framework relies on the complementary measures of resilience: “Reduced failure probabilities,” “Reduced consequences from failures,” and “Reduced time to recovery.” The framework also includes quantitative measures of the “end…
Transportation Planning for Disasters: An Accessibility Approach
A methodology is developed in this paper for evaluating and enhancing the performance of urban transportation systems in the aftermath of a disaster. A performance measure is proposed for assessing overall and distributional impacts based on the concept of accessibility. The methodology is demonstrated with two case studies. The first focuses on passenger railroad disruption in the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan. An accessibility meas…
Fostering resilience to extreme events within infrastructure systems: Characterizing decision contexts for mitigation and adaptation
Urban disaster recovery: A measurement framework and its application to the 1995 Kobe earthquake
This paper provides a framework for assessing empirical patterns of urban disaster recovery through the use of statistical indicators. Such a framework is needed to develop systematic knowledge on how cities recover from disasters. The proposed framework addresses such issues as defining recovery, filtering out exogenous influences unrelated to the disaster, and making comparisons across disparate areas or events. It is applied to document how Ko…
ResilUS: A Community Based Disaster Resilience Model
A resilient community is one that does not experience serious degradation in critical services when a hazard occurs and, in the event of degradation or failure, recovers to a similar or better level of service in a reasonable amount of time. The most efficient means of making a community resilient is to make its critical services and capital robust – minimize damage/loss probability or the consequences from damage/loss through mitigation. If a co…
Economic and Planning Approaches to Natural Disasters
This article addresses the persistent problem of natural disasters and considers how economic analysis and planning can contribute toward disaster risk reduction. Giving examples of hurricane Katrina, and the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, it provides an overview of the natural disasters problem and social science research in the area, giving global trends and disaster trends since the last century. It then introduces economic approaches to…
Urban Growth and Long-Term Changes in Natural Hazard Risk
This paper explores the question of whether natural hazard risks for urban areas are growing or diminishing over time. While trends such as population growth in hazardous areas increase the potential for loss in disaster events, other factors, such as improved building codes, tend to reduce this risk. The net effects of such urban changes are examined through the use of simulation models that estimate disaster losses. In a comparative static appr…
Consequences of oil spills: A review and framework for informing planning
Chang, S. E., J. Stone, K. Demes, and M. Piscitelli. 2014. Consequences of oil spills: a review and framework for informing planning. Ecology and Society 19(2): 26. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06406-190226
Potential impacts of an impending oil spill
Business recovery from disasters: Lessons from natural hazards and the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper compares economic recovery in the COVID-19 pandemic with other types of disasters, at the scale of businesses. As countries around the world struggle to emerge from the pandemic, studies of business impact and recovery have proliferated; however, pandemic research is often undertaken without the benefit of insights from long-standing research on past large-scale disruptive events, such as floods, storms, and earthquakes. This paper bui…
A Community Impact Scale for Regional Disaster Planning with Transportation Disruption
This paper proposes a simple analytical scheme and associated qualitative impact scales that capture the spatially varying effects of a regional disaster. Large-scale disasters that affect many towns and cities pose particular challenges for emergency response planning. For example, disruption to transportation systems can impede regional supply chains of critical goods, thereby exacerbating the impacts suffered locally in communities. Convention…
Implementing coastal adaptation: Assessing and explaining success by local governments in Nova Scotia, Canada
As coastal communities increasingly plan for climate change, there is a need to understand factors that influence whether planned actions get implemented. This study examines the implementation of coastal adaptation actions across Nova Scotia, Canada, the first province in the country to establish a regional policy framework to address adaptation by requiring municipalities to prepare Municipal Climate Change Action Plans (MCCAPs). Using the MCCA…
Geography (12 works) · Business (9 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Environmental planning (8 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (6 works) · Economics (5 works)