Stephanie E. Chang is a professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, with a joint appointment in the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Disaster Management and Urban Sustainability. She recently served on the editorial boards of the journals Earthquake Spectra and Papers in Regional Science, and on the U.S. National Research Council's Committee on Disaster Research in the Social Sciences.

Chang’s specialty is in the socio-economic impact of natural disasters, particularly earthquakes. She co-edited a book on Modeling Spatial Economic Impacts of Disasters (2004) and published extensively on loss estimation models for critical infrastructure systems, infrastructure interdependencies, economic evaluation of disaster mitigations, and urban disaster recovery.

Chang received her B.S.E. in civil engineering from Princeton University and Ph.D. in regional science from Cornell University.

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Workshop Abstracts

New Methods for Measuring, Monitoring, and Evaluating Post-Disaster Recovery
With Beverly Adams, John Bevington, Rachel Davidson, Ronald Eguchi, Arleen Hill, Dana Rathfon, and Marleen de Ruiter

Analyzing Infrastructures for Disaster Resilient Communities
With Timothy McDaniels

Related Resources from Stephanie Chang

Toward a Resiliency and Vulnerability Observatory Network: RAVON
With Walter Gillis Peacock, Howard Kunreuther, William Hooke, Susan Cutter and Phillip Berke