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Call 3: 2024 Research Projects

MM25 | Mitigating Homeowner Flood Risk After Harvey: An Assessment of Houston’s Home Repair and Elevation Programs (2025)
Ivis García, Zhihan Tao, Julia Orduña, Leslie Martínez-Román, and Windya Welideniya
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MM24 | Developing a New Interdisciplinary Model for Mapping Flood Risks and Impacts (2025)
Noah Bezanson, Elizabeth Reddy, Charis Boke, Sarah Kelly, and Paul Santi
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MM23 | A Decision Framework for Equitable Use of Federal Funds in Buyout Programs (2025)
Farinaz Motlagh and Sara Hamideh
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MM22 | Colorado’s Marshall Fire Recovery, Mitigation, and Resilience Through a Social Equity Lens (2025)
Katherine Dickinson, Hannah Walters, Deserai Crow, Elizabeth Albright, Andrew Rumbach, Annie Rosenow, Molly Kadota, Nathan Jeschke, Amy Javernick-Will, and Noah Gershon
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MM21 | Place and Process: Earthquake Mitigation in Portland, Oregon (2024)
Sarah Mercurio
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MM20 | Understanding Flood Mitigation Implementation Activities in Minnesota’s Red River Basin (2024)
Sarah Kirkpatrick
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MM19 | Fire-Resistant and Energy-Efficient Fungi-Based Building Materials: Towards Hazard-Mitigating Housing (2024)
Xijin Zhang
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MM18 | Zoning for Flood Risk Reduction in Five Virginia Communities: Opportunities to Improve Flood Hazard Mapping and Municipal Practice (2024)
Yang Zhang
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Call 2: 2020 Research Projects

MM14 | Does Post-Disaster Recovery Funding Promote Mitigation in Small Businesses? (2022)
Sua Kim and Divya Chandrasekhar
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MM12 | Disaster Risk Communication and Digital Vulnerability Among Subsidized Housing Residents (2023)
Yan Wang, Haiyan Hao, and Seungbeom Kang
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MM9 | Behavior Analysis of Socially Vulnerable Households Responding to Planned Power Shutoffs (2022)
Youngjib Ham and Seulbi Lee
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MM8 | Understanding the Impacts of Managed Retreat and Resettlement on Informal Communities (2022)
Monique A. Lorenzo Pérez and Santina Contreras
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MM5 | Risk Communication to Motivate Flood and Hurricane Risk Mitigation: Developing and Testing Social Norms and Self-Efficacy Messages (2021)
JungKyu Rhys Lim
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MM3 | The Art of Getting By: Ad Hoc Adaptations to Climate Change in Coastal Communities (2021)
Brianna Castro
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MM2 | Valuing Reef Ecosystem Services: Centering Community Voices to Mitigate Hazards (2021)
Kelly Dunning
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MM1 | The Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Mitigation Nexus: The Pamunkey Indian Reservation (2021)
Nicole S. Hutton and Thomas R. Allen
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Call 1: 2019 Research Projects

MM17 | Resilient Housing for Climate Hazard Mitigation: Research in Progress (2023)
George Elvin


MM16 | Where to Prepare? Data-Driven Approaches to Hospital Mitigation in the Dominican Republic (2023)
Amber S. Kahn, Ashley Morales-Cartagena, Jamie Vickery, Pedro Iván Marquez, and Nicole A. Errett


MM13 | From the Ashes: Mitigation Policy After Wildfire in California (2022)
Ronald Schumann, Miranda H. Mockrin, Sherri Brokopp Binder, and Alex Greer
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MM11 | Rebuilding after a Tornado: The Role of Homeowners Insurance in Recovery (2022)
Ji Yun Lee and Guirong (Grace) Yan
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MM10 | What Drives Hazard Mitigation Policy Adoption?: FEMA’s Property Buyout Program in Virginia Counties (2022)
Qiong Wang, Yang Zhang, and Kristin Owen
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MM7 | The Effect of Federal Recovery Funds on Mitigation Behavior (2021)
Maria Watson and Siyu Yu
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MM6 | Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning for Public Housing in Salt Lake County, Utah (2021)
Sayma Khajehei and Divya Chandrasekhar
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MM4 | Burning Down the House: Flame Imagery, Risk Communication, and Household Behavior (2022)
Hilary Byerly
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Acknowledgments

The Mitigation Matters Research Award program is based on work supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through supplemental funding to the National Science Foundation (NSF Award #1635593). Opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations produced by this program are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of FEMA, NSF, or the Natural Hazards Center.