Publications

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2024

Safarpour, H. and Spearing, L. (2024). “Temporal Public Perceptions and Experiences during Water Service Disruptions: The Case of Jackson, MS.” Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/ad1bb8
Sutradhar, U., Spearing, L., and Derrible, S. (2024). “Depopulation and associated challenges for US cities by 2100.” Nature Cities. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-023-00011-7

2023

Spearing, L., Tariq, M., Safarpour, H., Abia, T., Mallory, M., Guild, J., Katz, L., and Faust, K. (2023). “Moving Beyond Techno-Economic Considerations: Incorporating Organizational Constraints into Fit-for-use Technologies.” Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coche.2023.100950
Gosavi, A., Sneed, L., and Spearing, L. (2023). “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Approximate Policy Iteration: Convergence Analysis and A Post-Earthquake Disaster Response Case Study” Optimization Letters. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-023-02062-0
LaPatin, M., Barrens, S., Vaziri, B., Spearing, L., Padgett-Walsh, K., Feinstein, S., Rutherford, C., Nguyen, L., and Faust, K. (2023). “Engineering in a Crisis: Observing Students’ Perceptions of Macroethical Responsibilities during Pandemics and Natural Disasters.” Journal of Civil Engineering Education. https://doi.org/10.1061/JCEECD.EIENG-1909
Toland, J., Wein, A., Wu, A., and Spearing, L. (2023). “A Conceptual Framework for Estimation of Initial Emergency Food and Water Resource Requirements in Disasters Corresponding.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103661
Thelemaque, N., Spearing, L., Faust, K., and Kaminsky, J. (2023). “Small Drinking Water Utilities’ Resilience: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” ES&T Water. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00641
LaPatin, M., Spearing, L., Tiedmann, H., Hacker, M., Kavvada, O., Giorda, M., Danielou, J., and Faust, K. (2023). “Controversy in Wind Energy Construction Projects: How Social Systems Impact Project Performance.” Energy Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113507
Tiedmann, H., Spearing, L., Stephens, K., Castellanos, S., and Faust, K. (2023). “Tracking the Post-Disaster Evolution of Water Infrastructure Resilience: A Study of the 2021 Texas Winter Storm.” Sustainable Cities and Society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.104417

2022

Spearing, L., Mehendale, P., Albertson, L., Kaminsky, J., and Faust, K. (2022). “Improving Water Infrastructure Systems in Alaska: Identifying Vulnerabilities at the Intersection of Social, Natural, and Physical Systems.” Journal of Cleaner Production. 379 (Part 1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134596
Brown, M., Spearing, L., Roy, A., Kaminsky, J., and Faust, K. (2022). “Drivers of Declining Water Access in Alaska.” Environmental Science and Technology Water. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00167
Spearing, L., Bakchan, A., Hamlet, L., Stephens, K., Kaminsky, J., and Faust, K. (2022). “Comparing Qualitative Analysis Techniques for Construction Engineering and Management Research: The Case of Arctic Water Infrastructure.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management Special Collection on Research Methodologies. 148 (7). https://ascelibrary.org/doi/epdf/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CO.1943-7862.0002313
Stephens, K., Powers, C., Robertson, B., Spearing, L., Collier, J., Tich, K., and Smith, W.R. (2022). “Building More Resilient Communities: Communication and Organizing Practices in a Community-Wide Wildfire Evacuation Drill in the U.S.” Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12402
Tiedmann, H., Spearing, L., Sela, L., Kaminsky, J., Katz, L., Kinney, K., Kirisits, M., and Faust, K. (2022). “Modeling in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Overcoming the Water Sector’s Data Struggles to Realize the Potential of Hydraulic Models.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148 (6). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001561
Berglund, E. Z., Buchberger, S… Spearing, L…Yang, E. (2022). “Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Water Utility Operations and Vulnerability.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 148 (6). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001560

2021

Spearing, L., Tiedmann, H., Sela, L., Nagy, Z., Kaminsky, J., Katz, L., Kinney, K., Kirisits, M., and Faust, K. (2021). “Human-Infrastructure Interactions during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Water and Electricity Demand Profiles at the Building-Level.” Environmental Science and Technology Water. 1 (11). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.1c00176
Berglund, E. Z., Thelemaque, N., Spearing, L., Faust, K. M.,… Kadinski, L. (2021). “Water and Wastewater Systems and Utilities: Challenges and Opportunities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147 (5). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001373 *Editor’s Choice, Issue 147(5)
Spearing, L., Stephens, K., and Faust, K. (2021). “Shelter Shopping: Where the Built Environment and Social Systems Meet.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102161

2020

Spearing, L., Thelemaque, N., Kaminsky, J., Katz, L., Kinney, K., Sela, L. and Faust, K. (2020). “Implications of Social Distancing Policies on Drinking Water Infrastructure: An Overview of the Challenges to and Responses of US Utilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Environmental Science and Technology Water, 1. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.0c00229
Spearing, L., Dias, F., Faust, K., and Bhat, C. (2020). “Determining Multi-level Drivers of Perceiving Undesirable Taste and Odor in Tap Water: A Joint Modeling Approach.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147 (3). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001326
Spearing, L., and Faust, K. (2020). “Cascading System Impacts of the 2018 Camp Fire in California: The Interdependent Provision of Infrastructure Services to Displaced Populations.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101822