Raker Co-Authors Research Brief on Estimating Population Burdens of Environmental Evacuations

Posted: 2/13/2025 ()

Although many governments commonly issue emergency evacuation notices in response to environmental disasters, researchers have not developed measures to systematically evaluate and compare the population burdens of these notices. In a recent research brief in Population Research and Policy Review, CSDE External Affiliate Ethan Raker and co-author Xueqing Zhang introduce the concept of measurement in “person-days” under an emergency order. Person-time measures of emergency orders reveal the population burden of environmental hazards, can be applied broadly to cases like air quality alerts or heat warnings, and help demographers study environmental impacts across locations. Read the full brief here.