Recovering the urban forest: The role of trees, tree culture, and place attachment before and after Hurricane Harvey (open access)

Recovering the urban forest: The role of trees, tree culture, and place attachment before and after Hurricane Harvey

Article asserts that trees can be powerful symbols that contribute to the production and consumption of places. Drawing from multiple sources and participant observations from repeated site visits, the authors analyzed references to Rockport-Fulton’s trees in news media, organizational communications, and public exhibits before and after Harvey to understand the area’s tree culture and its associated discourses.
Date: April 18, 2023
Creator: Lavy, Brendan L. & Zavar, Elyse
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Do Perceptions of Risk Communicator Attributes Affect Emergency Response? An Examination of a Water Contamination Emergency in Boston, USA (open access)

How Do Perceptions of Risk Communicator Attributes Affect Emergency Response? An Examination of a Water Contamination Emergency in Boston, USA

This article describes how perceptions of different social stakeholders influenced whether respondents complied with the Protective Action Recommendation—PAR (i.e., drank boiled water), took alternative protective actions (i.e., drank bottled water or/and self-chlorinated water), or ignored the threat (i.e., continued to drink untreated tap water), during a water contamination emergency in Boston, USA.
Date: June 22, 2021
Creator: Hyman, Amy; Arlikatti, Sudha; Huang, Shih-Kai; Lindell, Michael K.; Mumpower, Jeryl; Prater, Carla S. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study on the GIS Professional (GISP) Certification Program in the U.S. (open access)

A Study on the GIS Professional (GISP) Certification Program in the U.S.

This article examines the characteristics of the members in the most popular Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Professional (GISP) certification program in the United States as well as the spatial patterns of the certified GISPs. The information presented in this study can help GIS educators and practitioners develop a better understanding of the current state of this certification program in the U.S and shed light on how to further improve the GISP certification program.
Date: July 6, 2020
Creator: Li, Dapeng; Li, Yingru; Nguyen, Quynh C. & Siebeneck, Laura K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roles revealed: An examination of the adopted roles of emergency managers in hazard mitigation planning and strategy implementation (open access)

Roles revealed: An examination of the adopted roles of emergency managers in hazard mitigation planning and strategy implementation

Article describes study where thirty emergency management coordinators from the North Central Texas region were interviewed to examine how they define their roles in hazard mitigation planning; then, grounded theory analysis generated six themes regarding the broad roles they practice.
Date: April 11, 2019
Creator: Samuel, Carlos & Siebeneck, Laura K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flood Resilience Building in Thailand: Assessing Progress and the Effect of Leadership (open access)

Flood Resilience Building in Thailand: Assessing Progress and the Effect of Leadership

This article uses the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction 10 Essentials for Making Cities Resilient as guidelines to assess the progress of flood resilience building in Thailand.
Date: March 5, 2018
Creator: Khunwishit, Somporn; Choosuk, Chanisada & Webb, Gary
System: The UNT Digital Library