Researcher(s):
Emily Tucciarone Samuel Bundenthal Emily Hays Callie McMahon
ENVS course(s): 220 Initiated: November 2016 Completed: Go to project site
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The Cascadian Subduction Earthquake has a 7 to 15 percent chance of hitting the Pacific Northwest over the next 50 years. Portland is likely to experience disastrous results when the earthquake does hit. The question is, how disastrous? How prepared is Portland to handle this inevitable disaster? In our research project, we will examine the necessity of food access in the event of a disaster and to what extent individuals and corporations in Portland display food preparedness. Our framing questions include: What factors determine a city’s resilience to earthquakes? How does individual preparedness affect the preparedness of a community? Specifically, we will investigate the differences in food preparedness between Lewis & Clark and surrounding communities. We plan to use spatial analysis in the form of GIS and interviews in order to examine food accessibility in relation to earthquake susceptibility. Through these methods, we will address our focus questions: How prepared are Portland residents and neighborhoods to handle the earthquake?How accessible is food in Portland, on-campus and off-campus, in face of a disaster?