Research Areas: Human-environmental interactions, natural hazards and disasters, social vulnerability, disaster resilience, modeling risk and vulnerability, GIS, geospatial analysis, global environmental change related hazards.
Dr. Christopher Burton is a geographer interested in the application of geospatial analysis and modeling techniques to human-environmental interactions. Dr. Burton's interests include the development of methods and metrics that are needed to evaluate baseline conditions for natural hazards vulnerability and resilience to better understand the potential for differential hazard impacts and the ability of populations to recover from damaging hazard events.