Measuring historical fiscal impacts of flooding events
Lead: Karina French
Counselors: Clint Andrews, Elisabeth Gilmore, Carolyn Kousky
Historical econometric paper examining the flooding event impacts on municipal revenues and expenditures in the mid-atlantic region (PA, NY, NJ), based on financial reporting and storm events. We plan to produce estimates of overall effects of historical flooding events on budget revenue and expenditure categories, based on event severity, and examine how those effects differ based on municipal budget structures (i.e. proportion of revenue from different tax streams).
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Values in Research Design
Lead: Casey Helgeson
Counselor: Nancy Tuana
The purpose of this circle is to help make MACH research relevant to engaged stakeholders in light of what those stakeholders care about. We go about this by learning about stakeholder perspectives on climate risks and structuring that information in a way that facilitates its use in research design (especially, but not limited to, decision analyses). Specifically, we will analyze transcripts of listening sessions and interviews in Philadelphia. As a starting point, we will document stakeholder goals and concerns with respect to their location within a collaboratively developed conceptual model reflecting MACH team members’ understanding of residential structural adaptation. Further analyses with respect to other adaptation strategies may follow.