The Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HHRC) is an interdisciplinary research center established within the College of Architecture in 1988. With over a 30 year history, the HRRC is one of the oldest disaster research centers in the country and the first within the field of urban planning. Its mission is to conduct and train students in cutting edge science that can reduce the impacts of hazards on all populations in society. HRRC researchers focus on hazard analysis, disaster recovery, hazard mitigation, community resilience, and emergency preparedness. Our core faculty are experts in the field of Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Sociology and Geography.
The Center assembles interdisciplinary teams that integrate social scientists with engineers, natural scientists, and others and have successfully won major grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Science and Technology, among others. Results of this research include the publicly available Coastal Planning Atlas, an online mapping platform that coordinates data on social and physical aspects for disaster planning. Researchers and students also work with community partners on applied research products such as evacuation planning, recovery planning, and mitigation planning. HRRC also aims to be at the forefront of efforts to educate the next generation of hazard and disaster scholars, promote diversity and inclusion in the hazard and disaster research and practice field, and facilitate researchers’ professional and scholarly development. The Center coordinates the graduate Certificate in Environmental Hazard Management that equips students with broad understanding of planning and policy related to disaster.
