Christopher T. Emrich

Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2005
Department of Geography
Callcott, Room 311B
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-1591   Fax: (803) 777-4972
email: emrich@mailbox.sc.edu

Areas of Interest
Emergency Management
Disaster Recovery
Emergency Technology
Resilience

Publications

Cutter, S.L., Burton, C.G. and C.T. Emrich. 2010.  "Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1, Article 51. DOI: 10.2202/1547-7355.1732. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/vol7/iss1/51

Stevenson, J.R., Emrich, C.T., Mitchell, J.T. and S.L. Cutter. 2010. Using Building Permits to Monitor Disaster Recovery: A Spatio-Temporal Case Study of Coastal Mississippi Following Hurricane Katrina, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 37(1): 57-68. DOI: 10.1559/152304010790588052

Finch, C., Emrich, C.T. and S.L. Cutter, 2010. Disaster disparities and differential recovery in New Orleans. Population and Environment, DOI 10.1007/s11111-009-0099-8.

Cutter, S.L., Gall. M., and C.T. Emrich.  2008.  “Towards a comprehensive loss inventory of weather and climate hazards.”  In Climate Extremes and Society, eds. H.F.  Diaz and R.J. Murnane.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  Pp279-295.

Cutter, S.L., Emrich, C.T., Adams, B.J., Huyck, C.K. and R.T. Eguchi, "New Information Technologies in Emergency Management," in Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government, 2d ed., ed. William L. Waugh Jr. and Kathleen Tierney (Washington, D.C.: ICMA Press, 2007).

Borden, K.A., Schmidtelin, M.C., Emrich, C.T., Piegorsch, W.W. and S.L. Cutter. 2007. Vulnerability of U.S. Cities to Environmental Hazards.  Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: Vol. 4: Iss. 2, Article 5.   Available at: http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/vol4/iss2/5

Cutter, S. L. and C.T. Emrich.  2006.  Moral Hazard, Social Catastrophe: The Changing Face of Vulnerability along the Hurricane Coasts.  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 604 (1): 102-112.

Cutter, S. L., C. T. Emrich, J. T. Mitchell, B. J. Boruff, M. Gall, M. C. Schmidtlein, C. G. Burton, and G. Melton.  2006.  The Long Road Home: Race, Class and Recovery from Hurricane Katrina.  Environment 28 (2): 8-20.

Cutter, S.L. and C. Emrich.  2005.  Are Natural Hazards and Disaster Losses in the U.S. Increasing?.  EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 86(41): 381 & 388-389.

Boruff, B.B., C. Emrich, and S. L. Cutter.  2005.  Erosion Hazard Vulnerability of United States Coastal Counties.  Journal of Coastal Research 21(5): 932-942. 

Emrich, C.  2000.  Social Vulnerability and Natural Hazards: A Case Study for Hillsborough County, Florida.  Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Applied Geography Conference, Tampa, FL: October 2000.

Brinkman, R., C. Emrich, M. Billus, B. Dwyer, B., and J. Ryan, 1999.  Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Street Sweepings Sediments in Tampa, Florida.   5/99, #98-12.  Special Report for the Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Tampa, FL.