This study adds to the original PIRS™ approach by (1) comprehensively including plans from all administrative tiers, (2) adapting it beyond the Euro-American context, and (3) widening its thematic focus from flooding to extreme heat.

This study uses correlational statistics to examine the association between wetland loss and the extent of plan integration for communities’ flood resilience while considering a series of other factors. It uses Fort Lauderdale in Florida and League City in Texas as its study sites – two cities with contrasting development contexts.

Comprehensive plans can play a pivotal role in reducing hazard vulnerability. However, there have been limited tools to assess if a comprehensive plan is of high quality or is congruent with other plans in reducing hazard vulnerability. It is against this backdrop that this study introduces Plan I.Q. – a new approach to assess and improve the degree of plan quality and plan integration for comprehensive plans.

This study examined the relationship between the spatial heterogeneity of landscape patterns and urban residents’ outdoor thermal comfort in Tokyo, Japan.

This study is the first to use Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) to investigate the influence of local planning capacity and other contextual factors on the integration of hazard mitigation policies and building of resilience across community ’networks of plans’ in six US coastal cities.

This study used the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard (PIRS) method to spatially evaluate a network of plans guiding land use and development in western Houston when Harvey struck.

Problem, research strategy, and findings: In this study we analyze plan integration for flood resilience in the city of Nijmegen, the site of the largest Room for the River project in The Netherlands. Little is known about the degree to which local and regional plans are coordinated with the national Room for the River program… [Read More]

We evaluate the degree to which equity policies in local networks of plans support risk reduction for socially vulnerable populations, and examine the relationship between equity policies scores and the level of social vulnerability in six cities exposed to floods and projected sea level rise.

A Geodesign process was developed using the resilience scorecard to assess flood vulnerability using projections for the 100-year floodplain with sea-level rise by 2100.

To better understand coordination and conflicts in policy responses to flood hazards, this study evaluates a district in the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, using the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard method.

We apply a plan integration for resilience scorecard in six US coastal cities to evaluate the integration of local networks of plans and the degree to which they target areas most vulnerable to flooding hazards.