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Rodrigo Costa is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo, specializing in disaster risk management and community resilience. His research focuses on post-disaster housing recovery, economic impacts of disasters, and agent-based modeling of recovery processes. He explores financing mechanisms, infrastructure vulnerability, and social equity in recovery contexts.
His work bridges engineering, economics, and social sciences to address challenges in urban disaster resilience. Key themes include repeated flooding risks, multi-regional economic recovery simulations, and the integration of place attachment in recovery models. He advocates for open science practices to enhance reproducibility in disaster research.
Recent studies analyze housing recovery disparities post-earthquakes and wildfires, refine input-output economic models for disaster impacts, and evaluate policy instruments like presidential disaster declarations. His research emphasizes practical applications for policy design and community preparedness.
