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Disasters, Smart Growth and Economic Resilience: An Empirical Analysis of Florida Cities

Description: This dissertation examines the relationship between economic resilience, disaster experience, and smart growth policies at the local government level. The study is based upon three research questions that examine spatial distribution of economic resilience in Florida cities, and examines the impact of disaster experience, and smart growth policies adopted by local governments on economic resilience. Based upon the bounce-forward approach (Cowell, 2013; Klein et al. 2003), economic resilience is… more
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Date: August 2019
Creator: Chatterjee, Vaswati

Hurricane Dorian Twitter Dataset

Description: This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Hurricane Dorian which is the most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the Bahamas, and is regarded as the worst natural disaster in the country's history. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/DocNow/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 3,000,553 Tweets and 84,216 media files make up the combined dataset.
Date: 2019-08-25/2019-09-14
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
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