Expertise

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.

Past Affiliations

Affiliate Professor, Department of Geosciences, College of Sciences and Mathematics, Auburn University

Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, College of Sciences and Mathematics, Auburn University
2016 - 2020

Senior Scientist, Coordinator, Social Vulnerability and Integrated Risk, Global Earthquake Model Foundation (past)
2011 - 2016

PhD Student, Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina (past)

Communities
Geology, Geography
Degrees
PhD, University of South Carolina, Geography , 2012
MS, University of South Carolina, Geography , 2007
BS, California State University Sacramento, Geography , 2005
Keywords
resilience vulnerability risk regional or urban design disaster studies earthquake mitigation geography geographic quantitative methods geographic information systems regional planning or policy urban planning emergency or disaster planning or policy earthquake engineering climate change spatial data or analysis geoscience floodplains environmental sustainability tropical cyclone motion hazardous materials & waste