Practicing Resilient Futures

Listen as Assistant Professor Alida Cantor discusses structural and long-term issues in water resource management and planning in the Western United States; then, listen as Professor Heejun Chang examines how floodplain and flood risk management have changed in each city.

Listen to Dr. Jola Idowu Ajibade discuss resilience work in Manila, followed by Dr. Eric Einspruch discussing resilience as an evaluation thinking perspective.

Listen to Vivek Shandas, Professor in the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning and Founding Director of the Sustaining Urban Places Research (SUPR) Lab at Portland State University, talk about how the urban forest provides myriad benefits for improving the health and well-being of residents.

Listen to Brianne Suldovsky, Assistant Professor of Communication, discuss the basics of risk communication, including how publics perceive risks and best practices in risk communication.

Next, listen to Lauren Frank, Associate Professor of Communication, highlight risk communication during COVID-19.

Listen to a discussion on Japan's 2011 earthquake & tsunami with Masami Nishishiba, Department Chair & Professor of Public Administration and Co-Director of Initiative for Community and Disaster Resilience (ICDR); and Dr. Hiro Ito, Department Chair & Professor of Economics and Co-Director of ICDR.

Listen to Dr. Scott Burns, Professor Emeritus of PSU Engineering Geology and President of IAEG (International Association of Engineering Geologists and the Environment), discuss geodisaster resilence.

Listen to Jeremy Spoon, Associate Professor of Anthropology, talk about lessons from rural and indigenous disaster recoveries in Nepal.