This talk highlights how engaged research by ODU Resilience Collaborative members provide insight for better understanding the context of adaptation to flooding and sea level rise in Hampton Roads. Results from various engaged research projects will be woven into a narrative about adaptation to flooding and sea level rise in Hampton Roads, and challenges for moving toward a whole-of-government and whole-of-community approach to adaptation and building resilience. Drawing from wide-ranging projects such as a study of Virginia legislators' perceptions of recurrent flooding, assessment of regional adaptation readiness, analysis of drivers' responses to nuisance flooding on roads, case studies of stakeholder engagement efforts, and the Little Creek demonstration project of the Hampton Roads Sea Level Rise Preparedness and Resilience Intergovernmental Planning Pilot Project, this talk will conclude with a discussion of opportunities for ODU and the ODU Resilience Collaborative to support regional adaptation efforts.

Dr. Wie Yusuf is associate professor of public service in the Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University. She also leads the ODU Resilience Collaborative, a consortium of leading ODU scholars actively engaged in research, education, and outreach on critical issues for resilience in the community, regional, national, and global levels. She has an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering (University of Notre Dame), MBA (Indiana University), and PhD in public administration and policy (University of Kentucky). Her research focuses on policy issues at the intersection of governments, nonprofits, businesses, and civil society. These include complex and contentious issues such as stakeholder engagement and public participation, environmental policy, transportation planning, infrastructure finance, and fiscal policy.

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