Hugh Gladwin
Hugh Gladwin is the director of the Institute for Public Opinion Research (IPOR) and Associate Professor in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies (joint anthropology/geography/sociology) at Florida International University. IPOR provides survey research and evaluation services.
Since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, Gladwin has been engaged in research on hurricane issues. He is the principal investigator (PI) on one current National Science Foundation (NSF) grant and co-PI on another. Both study aspects of hurricane evacuation behavior. He was co-PI on an NSF grant to study South Florida resident decisions about approaching hurricanes, and PI of another NSF grant to study the perceptions of Gulf Coast residents in Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina evacuations. He is a member of the Human Dimensions Group of the Florida Coastal Everglades Long Term Ecological Research studying urban effects on ecosystem resiliency. He is also a member of the Miami-Dade County Climate Change Advisory Task Force and Local Mitigation Strategy Steering Committee.
Gladwin's major area of research is the application of survey research and GIS tools to understand large urban settings of high cultural and demographic diversity. He is a co-editor (with Walter Gillis Peacock and Betty Morrow) and contributor to the book "Hurricane Andrew: Ethnicity, Gender, and the Sociology of Disaster" and author of many publications and presentations on disaster mitigation, public health, and public opinion.
Workshop Abstracts
Context, Bayesian Updating, and Cry Wolf Phenomenon in Hurricane Evacuation Behavior: A Panel Study
Related Resources from Hugh Gladwin
Social Science Research Needs for the Hurricane Forecast and Warning System
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, January 2009
More Resources by Hugh Gladwin from the Natural Hazards Library Staff
Evacuation Decision Making and Behavioral Responses: Individual and Household
Natural Hazards Review, 2007