Shannon Van Zandt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1340747 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shannon Van Zandt |
| PRENOMES | Shannon |
| SOBRENOME | Van Zandt |
| ASSINATURA | VAN ZANDT S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1640-7799 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 168 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Outmatched by Disaster? Recovery-Based Learning and Training Competencies for Planners
Planner involvement in disaster recovery provides valuable opportunities to apply planning tools and knowledge that enhance community resilience. We interviewed professionals experienced in disaster recovery to identify essential knowledge planners need for improved engagement and leadership in disaster recovery operations. This article describes the continuing challenges of disaster recovery faced by planners and highlights educational opportuni…
Sponge City for whom? Leveraging Social Vulnerability Index for extreme flood adaptation
Racial and Ethnic Change in Floodplain Buyout Neighborhoods
This paper examines how floodplain buyouts funded through FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) have altered the racial and ethnic composition in Harris County, Texas, from 1990 to 2015. A quasi-experimental research design permits the attribution of observed changes to the buyout program, and interviews with households provide context to our findings. We find that buyouts have triggered white flight, shifting neighborhoods from predomina…
Planning for Disaster Recovery
Scholars and practitioners have long called for more planning leadership in community disaster recovery. Yet, how planners perceive themselves in disaster recovery, understand recovery processes, and participate in recovery activities remains relatively unknown. A survey of APA members found that improvements are needed for the planning field to meet increasing societal disaster needs. Few respondents have participated in pre- or postdisaster rec…
Do walkable neighborhoods reduce the time to sell foreclosed properties
Reducing AI Model Biases with a Bilevel Learning Framework
This study aims to improve disaster risk mitigation by integrating fairness into artificial intelligence (AI) models, specifically addressing spatial biases that can lead to unequal resource allocation during disasters. Our objective is to reduce spatial biases in disaster impact prediction models via a bilevel learning framework, enhancing both accuracy and fairness. To achieve this, we leverage information exchanges in social networks during th…
Social Capital Theory and Quantitative Approaches in Measurements
Disaster recovery depends heavily on the support of social networks and the resources they can generate. Yet such support is difficult to measure and assess. This paper reviews existing quantitative approaches to measure social capital within a disaster context. The article addresses (1) how is social capital conceptualized in the disaster literature? and (2) what social capital measures have been used based on existing conceptual frameworks (e.g…
Using neighborhood characteristics to predict vacancy types
Vacant and abandoned land can be public eyesores that can potentially result in neighborhood distress in the long term. In some cases, the contextual conditions of a neighborhood have been shown to have more of a negative effect on communities than the vacant property itself. Maximum opportunities to actually reuse vacant and abandoned land is known to primarily exist in cases where the surrounding area has locational benefits or when local econo…
Quality of Stormwater Infrastructure Systems in Vulnerable Communities
A properly functioning local stormwater drainage system is essential for mitigating flood risks. This study evaluates the quality of roadside drainage channels in three underserved communities in Texas: the Sunnyside neighborhood in Houston (Harris County), a neighborhood in the City of Rockport (Aransas County), and the Hoehn colonia (Hidalgo County). These communities have a history of flooding, are highly socially vulnerable, and rely on roads…
Toward Urban Artificial Intelligence for Developing Justice-Oriented Smart Cities
Expanding the Right to the City Through Regulatory and Financial Planning Tools
Toward a Unifying Definition and Approach for Quantifying Urban Policy Performance
Natural Experiments in Planning Research
Engaged Research
Planning, development pressure, and change in green infrastructure quantity and configuration in coastal Texas
Housing type matters for pace of recovery
Rapid and broad-based housing recovery is key to successful, resilient community recovery, due to the significant share of housing in disaster losses, population retention, and its importance for household and business recovery. In the literature, there is relative consensus on how housing damage is shaped by pre-impact conditions at household and neighborhood levels. However, systematic longitudinal studies that compare the recovery trajectories…
Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Coupled Natural-Physical-Social Systems
The combined effect of storm surge and wave action during severe storms in coastal regions can cause significant damage to civil infrastructures with cascading consequences to coastal communities and their residents with respect to emergency response, repair, and recovery. This coupling of natural, physical, and social systems presents an important yet relatively underexplored problem in the probabilistic risk assessment of coastal systems. Not o…
Green infrastructure in comprehensive plans in coastal Texas
By guiding where, how, and when development occurs, comprehensive plans are an important vehicle to implement green infrastructure. To examine how green infrastructure is incorporated into local comprehensive plans, we evaluate 38 city and county plans in coastal Texas. Like many coastal regions, coastal Texas is experiencing rapid population growth, environmental degradation, and growing natural hazard threats. We found that local comprehensive …
Unequal Protection Revisited
Existing environmental justice (EJ) and hazard vulnerability literatures inadequately address key texts and topics related to critical physical infrastructure, including stormwater, green space, sewerage, energy, and roads, among other systems. This scoping review demonstrates how fundamental principles of EJ can bolster and compliment those of social vulnerability (SV) with a focus on stormwater systems and flood risks. The discussion and concep…
Citizens as Sensors for Small Communities
Planning the Allocation and Reallocation of Urban Space
The Necessary Role of Planning Practice and Scholarship in the Age of Uncertainty
Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change
Redressing Racial and Environmental Injustice Through a Voluntary Acquisition and Relocation Program
Tucked in the northeast corner of Corpus Christi, adjacent to one of the nation's largest ports, lies Hillcrest, a low-income and minority neighborhood clouded by a history of segregation, discrimination, and environmental injustice. The siting of heavy industry—refineries and petrochemical and energy companies—along its northern and western borders and infrastructure—an expansive highway—along its southern border have depressed property values, …
Publishing in the Time of Covid-19
Home Ownership and Access to Opportunity
Home ownership and access to opportunity are foundations of the American ethos. While little research has explicitly examined a relationship between home ownership and opportunity, considerable empirical work has examined how home ownership impacts important elements of local opportunity structures as well as individual subjective perceptions of those structures. Available evidence suggests that home ownership may affect the opportunity structure…
Homeownership and Neighborhood Satisfaction among Low- and Moderate-Income Households
Most research on homeownership is conducted on nationally representative samples of homeowners and fails to isolate the unique experience of low- and moderate-income (LMI) homeowners. Given the interest of policymakers in promoting homeownership among LMI households over the past 20 years, along with the apparent role played by risky borrowers—many of whom are low-income—in the current housing market crisis, it is important to evaluate both econo…
Can community land trusts slow gentrification
Gentrification has become one of the most widely discussed phenomena in urban affairs due to its prevalence around the world. However, most discussions remain at the theoretical level or are limited to case studies of a few metropolitan cities. Furthermore, there is little research on the relationship between gentrification and community land trusts (CLTs)—to our knowledge, no studies have examined their connection.Our investigation seeks to addr…
Growing Pains
New regional growth may perpetuate social and economic inequalities caused by uneven urban development, or may reverse such trends by expanding housing options that make possible the dispersal of lower-income households among suburban areas offering better social, economic, and educational opportunities. Supply-side housing approaches can facilitate a more equitable redistribution of housing options. In this research, we examine the role of the L…
Mitigation Planning
Increasing interest in fostering resilient communities requires a more comprehensive approach to hazard mitigation planning that overcomes the limitations of traditional hazard assessments, notably the failure to explicitly incorporate an analysis of social vulnerability. We statistically analyzed a random sample of 1500 damage assessments of single-family homes collected following Hurricane Ike to assess the contributions of hazard exposure, str…
Planning for Climate Adaptation
While recent research has recognized the importance of considering social vulnerability, the changing patterns of social vulnerability within cities and the climate adaptation challenges these shifts pose have yet to receive much attention. In this article, we evaluate the changing patterns of social vulnerability in three coastal cities (Houston, New Orleans, and Tampa) over a thirty-year time period (1980–2010) and integrate neighborhood change…
Impacts of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program on Neighborhood Housing Turnover
Although the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program has grown into the largest subsidized housing program in the United States, we have limited understanding of how these units affect the neighborhoods in which they are located. This article examines impacts of the LIHTC program on neighborhood stability in the cities of Charlotte and Cleveland. We examine housing turnover before and after the introduction of LIHTC developments into the ne…
Unpacking the impacts of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program on nearby property values
Most existing research on the impacts of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) on neighbouring property values is limited in terms of providing causal attribution and uncovering nuances in the role of housing market and neighbourhood composition. This article addresses these shortcomings by investigating the impacts of the LIHTC program in Charlotte, North Carolina and Cleveland, Ohio. Levels and trends in housing prices before and after LIHT…
Toward Urban Artificial Intelligence for Developing Justice-Oriented Smart Cities
Do First-Time Home Buyers Improve Their Neighborhood Quality
This study examines the changes in neighborhood quality in communities where low-income buyers have recently purchased homes. Three questions are addressed: Do lower-income buyers buy in higher quality neighborhoods than the ones in which they rented? Are lower-income buyers locating in higher quality neighborhoods than a comparison group of continuing renters? Are the neighborhoods of new buyers improving or deteriorating relative to those of co…
Natural Experiments in Planning Research
Coming home
Building Community Resiliency
Rapidly urbanising areas along the world’s coasts are exposing greater numbers of households to more frequent and severe natural and man-made disasters. Knowledge gained from disaster situations can provide insight into larger urban forces and play a role in developing and prescribing policies that influence the creation of more resilient communities. This article explores the interdependency of households and businesses in post-disaster return f…
Small-Town Housing Needs
An urban bias is evident in policies and programs addressing housing and community development issues in the U.S. Analysis of American Housing Survey data comparing non-metropolitan housing conditions to central city and suburban housing conditions indicates a higher incidence of structural deficiencies combined with low housing values, suggesting that non-metropolitan housing offers particular challenges. To explore the obstacles faced by organi…
Evaluating drivers of housing vacancy
The Relationship Between Residential Land Use Patterns and the Educational Outcomes of Economically Disadvantaged Students in Texas
Disparate outcomes resulting from economic segregation in public primary schools have been the subject of much debate and litigation. Little research, however, examines whether negative outcomes may be exacerbated by inequities in the distribution of housing across metropolitan areas. This article explores connections between residential land use patterns and educational outcomes for economically disadvantaged students in Texas’s four largest met…
Toward a Unifying Definition and Approach for Quantifying Urban Policy Performance
Engaged Research
The impact of zoning regulations on thermal comfort in non-conditioned housing in hot, humid climates
Home Ownership and Access to Opportunity
Home ownership and access to opportunity are foundations of the American ethos. While little research has explicitly examined a relationship between home ownership and opportunity, considerable empirical work has examined how home ownership impacts important elements of local opportunity structures as well as individual subjective perceptions of those structures. Available evidence suggests that home ownership may affect the opportunity structure…
Do First-Time Home Buyers Improve Their Neighborhood Quality
This study examines the changes in neighborhood quality in communities where low-income buyers have recently purchased homes. Three questions are addressed: Do lower-income buyers buy in higher quality neighborhoods than the ones in which they rented? Are lower-income buyers locating in higher quality neighborhoods than a comparison group of continuing renters? Are the neighborhoods of new buyers improving or deteriorating relative to those of co…
Small-Town Housing Needs
An urban bias is evident in policies and programs addressing housing and community development issues in the U.S. Analysis of American Housing Survey data comparing non-metropolitan housing conditions to central city and suburban housing conditions indicates a higher incidence of structural deficiencies combined with low housing values, suggesting that non-metropolitan housing offers particular challenges. To explore the obstacles faced by organi…
Growing Pains
New regional growth may perpetuate social and economic inequalities caused by uneven urban development, or may reverse such trends by expanding housing options that make possible the dispersal of lower-income households among suburban areas offering better social, economic, and educational opportunities. Supply-side housing approaches can facilitate a more equitable redistribution of housing options. In this research, we examine the role of the L…
Homeownership and Neighborhood Satisfaction among Low- and Moderate-Income Households
Most research on homeownership is conducted on nationally representative samples of homeowners and fails to isolate the unique experience of low- and moderate-income (LMI) homeowners. Given the interest of policymakers in promoting homeownership among LMI households over the past 20 years, along with the apparent role played by risky borrowers—many of whom are low-income—in the current housing market crisis, it is important to evaluate both econo…
The Relationship Between Residential Land Use Patterns and the Educational Outcomes of Economically Disadvantaged Students in Texas
Disparate outcomes resulting from economic segregation in public primary schools have been the subject of much debate and litigation. Little research, however, examines whether negative outcomes may be exacerbated by inequities in the distribution of housing across metropolitan areas. This article explores connections between residential land use patterns and educational outcomes for economically disadvantaged students in Texas’s four largest met…
Mapping social vulnerability to enhance housing and neighborhood resilience
Social factors influence the ability of coastal communities and their populations to anticipate, respond, resist, and recover from disasters. Galveston, TX, offers aunique opportunity to test the efficacy of social vulnerability mapping to identify inequalities in the ways that different parts of the community may react to a disaster. We describe spatial patterns of social vulnerability prior to 2008's Hurricane Ike and compare them to outcomes r…
Building Community Resiliency
Rapidly urbanising areas along the world’s coasts are exposing greater numbers of households to more frequent and severe natural and man-made disasters. Knowledge gained from disaster situations can provide insight into larger urban forces and play a role in developing and prescribing policies that influence the creation of more resilient communities. This article explores the interdependency of households and businesses in post-disaster return f…
The impact of zoning regulations on thermal comfort in non-conditioned housing in hot, humid climates
Coming home
Inequities in Long-Term Housing Recovery After Disasters
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Disaster impacts result from interactions between hazard exposure, physical vulnerability, and social vulnerability. We report empirical work from 1992′s Hurricane Andrew in Miami-Dade (FL) and 2008′s Hurricane Ike in Galveston (TX) to assess long-term trends in housing recovery. Longitudinal, parcel-level data on housing units along with neighborhood sociodemographic data permit analysis of the pace of r…
Mitigation Planning
Increasing interest in fostering resilient communities requires a more comprehensive approach to hazard mitigation planning that overcomes the limitations of traditional hazard assessments, notably the failure to explicitly incorporate an analysis of social vulnerability. We statistically analyzed a random sample of 1500 damage assessments of single-family homes collected following Hurricane Ike to assess the contributions of hazard exposure, str…
Planning for Climate Adaptation
While recent research has recognized the importance of considering social vulnerability, the changing patterns of social vulnerability within cities and the climate adaptation challenges these shifts pose have yet to receive much attention. In this article, we evaluate the changing patterns of social vulnerability in three coastal cities (Houston, New Orleans, and Tampa) over a thirty-year time period (1980–2010) and integrate neighborhood change…
Unpacking the impacts of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program on nearby property values
Most existing research on the impacts of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) on neighbouring property values is limited in terms of providing causal attribution and uncovering nuances in the role of housing market and neighbourhood composition. This article addresses these shortcomings by investigating the impacts of the LIHTC program in Charlotte, North Carolina and Cleveland, Ohio. Levels and trends in housing prices before and after LIHT…
Impacts of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program on Neighborhood Housing Turnover
Although the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program has grown into the largest subsidized housing program in the United States, we have limited understanding of how these units affect the neighborhoods in which they are located. This article examines impacts of the LIHTC program on neighborhood stability in the cities of Charlotte and Cleveland. We examine housing turnover before and after the introduction of LIHTC developments into the ne…
Can community land trusts slow gentrification
Gentrification has become one of the most widely discussed phenomena in urban affairs due to its prevalence around the world. However, most discussions remain at the theoretical level or are limited to case studies of a few metropolitan cities. Furthermore, there is little research on the relationship between gentrification and community land trusts (CLTs)—to our knowledge, no studies have examined their connection.Our investigation seeks to addr…
The development of a participatory assessment technique for infrastructure
Evaluating drivers of housing vacancy
Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change
Redressing Racial and Environmental Injustice Through a Voluntary Acquisition and Relocation Program
Tucked in the northeast corner of Corpus Christi, adjacent to one of the nation's largest ports, lies Hillcrest, a low-income and minority neighborhood clouded by a history of segregation, discrimination, and environmental injustice. The siting of heavy industry—refineries and petrochemical and energy companies—along its northern and western borders and infrastructure—an expansive highway—along its southern border have depressed property values, …
Publishing in the Time of Covid-19
Housing type matters for pace of recovery
Rapid and broad-based housing recovery is key to successful, resilient community recovery, due to the significant share of housing in disaster losses, population retention, and its importance for household and business recovery. In the literature, there is relative consensus on how housing damage is shaped by pre-impact conditions at household and neighborhood levels. However, systematic longitudinal studies that compare the recovery trajectories…
Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Coupled Natural-Physical-Social Systems
The combined effect of storm surge and wave action during severe storms in coastal regions can cause significant damage to civil infrastructures with cascading consequences to coastal communities and their residents with respect to emergency response, repair, and recovery. This coupling of natural, physical, and social systems presents an important yet relatively underexplored problem in the probabilistic risk assessment of coastal systems. Not o…
Green infrastructure in comprehensive plans in coastal Texas
By guiding where, how, and when development occurs, comprehensive plans are an important vehicle to implement green infrastructure. To examine how green infrastructure is incorporated into local comprehensive plans, we evaluate 38 city and county plans in coastal Texas. Like many coastal regions, coastal Texas is experiencing rapid population growth, environmental degradation, and growing natural hazard threats. We found that local comprehensive …
Unequal Protection Revisited
Existing environmental justice (EJ) and hazard vulnerability literatures inadequately address key texts and topics related to critical physical infrastructure, including stormwater, green space, sewerage, energy, and roads, among other systems. This scoping review demonstrates how fundamental principles of EJ can bolster and compliment those of social vulnerability (SV) with a focus on stormwater systems and flood risks. The discussion and concep…
Economics (24 obras) · Business (21 obras) · Geography (21 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Computer Science (14 obras) · Environmental planning (14 obras) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (13 obras) · Disaster Management and Resilience (12 obras) · Economic growth (12 obras)