Roundtable Outcomes

This project measures the coping capacity to recurrent flooding among residents of three different coastal urban neighborhoods and evaluates its implications for the community resilience in the City of Hampton, Virginia. A team of faculty and students from Virginia Tech (VT) and Old Dominion University (ODU) conducted a household survey in the neighborhoods with different cultural, historic, and socioeconomic character to measure households’ experience with flooding, risk perceptions, adaptive and coping capacity, and attitudes toward relocation. As a part of this project, students had an opportunity to work on an interdisciplinary research project designed to understand a complex issue of coastal flooding in partnership with local stakeholders, to learn mixed-methods of data collection and analysis, and to help generate policy-relevant results that will help improve the resilience to coastal flooding in Virginia.