Elyse M. Zavar

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Abstracts and Proceedings

• Zavar, E.M., Otal, H.T., Binder, S.B., Greer, A., Canbaz, M. Harnessing Deep Learning and Satellite Imagery for Post-Buyout Land Cover Mapping. Other. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07500

Book Chapter

• Nunn, P.D., Geraghty, P., Setariki, V., Bussey, M., Heroake, T., Lancini, L., Tavola, K., Thomas, F., Zavar, E.M. (2024). Spiritual beliefs and cultrual protocols regarding submerged lands in the Pacific Islands: significance and implications for sustainability. Other. Springer Nature.
• Siebeneck, L.K., Zavar, E., Wolfe, R. (2023). The Roles of Geographers and Land Use Managers in Emergency Management. The Distributed Functions of Emergency Management and Homeland Security: An Assessment of the Responsibilities of Vital Professions in Disasters and Terrorist Attacks. CRC Press.
• Zavar, E., Lavy, B.L., Stern, E. (2021). Mitigation: Learning from and anticipating crises. Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis.
• Roe, S., Zavar, E.M. (2018). Geographically Gated Communities: why indirect segregation is the new normal. Collective Action. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Zavar, E.M., Hagelman III, R.R., Rugeley II, W.M. (2015). Site, situation, and property owner decision- making after the 2002 Guadalupe River flood. Evolving Approaches to Understanding Natural Hazards. 458-470. . Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Journal Article

• Tamima, S., Zavar, E.M., Lavy, B.L., Schumann, R.L. (2024). A Range of Pandemic Adjustments: Changes to Texas Heritage Site Business Operations during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sustainability. 16 2860.
• Lavy, B., Zavar, E.M., Tamima, S. (2023). Heritage as businesses: COVID-19 disruptions to Texas museums, heritage sites, parks, and protected places and their responses to evolving guidance. Other. 11 (4) 652-668.
• Dascher, E.D., Zavar, E., Greer, A., , S.B. (2023). Biophilia as Climate Justice for Post-Buyout Land Management. Applied Geography.
• Zavar, E., Greer, A., Binder, S.B., Niazi, S. (2023). The Post-buyout Landscape: An analysis of visual culture. GeoJournal.
• Lavy, B., Zavar, E.M. (2023). Recovering the urban forest: The role of trees, tree culture, and place attachment before and after Hurricane Harvey. Other. 84 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127949
• Zavar, E., Binder, S.B., Greer, A., Breaux, A. (2023). Using the past to understand future property acquisitions: An examination of historic voluntary and mandatory household relocations. Natural Hazards. 116 1973-1993.
• Siebeneck, L.K., Zavar, E., Manandhar, R. (2022). An Overview of Local Floodplain Administrators in FEMA Region 6. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. 19 (2) 149-173.
• Zavar, E., Fischer, L. (2021). Fractured landscapes: The racialization of home buyout programs and climate adaptation. Other. 3
• Greer, A., Binder, S.B., Zavar, E. (2021). From Hazard Mitigation to Climate Adaptation: A Review of Home Buyout Program Literature. Housing Policy Debate.
• Roe, S.M., Zavar, E. Understanding the Role of Wrongdoing in Technological Disasters: Utilizing ecofeminist philosophy to examine commemoration. Other.
• Zavar, E.M., Schumann, R.L. (2020). Post-disaster communalism: Land use, ownership, and the shifting ‘publicness’ of urban space in recovery. Environmental Hazards. 19 (4) 398-416.
• Zavar, E.M., Lavy, B., Hagelman III, R.R. (2020). Chain tourism in post-disaster recovery. Other. 20 (4) 429-449.
• Zavar, E., Hann, D.G. (2020). Commemoration through Cookbooks: A Recipe for Post-disaster Recovery. Other. 52 (2) 45-59. THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR LANDSCAPE, PLACE, & MATERIAL CULTURE. http://www.pioneeramerica.org/materialculturecurrent.html
• Zavar, E.M., Nelan, M.M. (2020). Disaster Drills as Experiential Learning Opportunities for Geographic Education. Other.
• Brokopp Binder , S., Greer, A., Zavar, E.M. (2020). Home Buyouts: A Tool for Mitigation or Recovery?. Other. 29 (4) 497-510.
• Nelan, M.M., Zavar, E.M., Ray, S. (2019). Chasing Utopia: Disaster Memorial Volunteers at the Joplin Memorial Race. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 44 101413.
• Zavar, E.M., Schumann, R.L. (2019). Patterns of Disaster Commemoration in Long-Term Recovery. Geographical Review. 109 (2) 157-179.
• Massa, A., Zavar, E.M., Lavy, B., Graves, S. (2018). Fragmented forest: A case study examining historical land management and current urban forest health. Other. 10 27-45.
• Zavar, E.M., Hagelman III, R. (2018). Resilient Landscapes: The Reconstruction of Connecticut Following the 1938 Hurricane.. The Professional Geographer. 70 (3) 443-452.
• Zavar, E.M. (2018). An analysis of floodplain buyout memorials: four examples from central U.S. floods of 1993–1998. GeoJournal. 84 (1) 157-179. Springer. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-018-9855-6
• Zavar, E.M., Hagelman, R., Lavy, B., Prince, B. (2017). Land-Use Change at Temporary Group-Housing Sites in Post-Katrina Louisiana. Natural Hazards Review. 18 (3) 04017003. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)nh.1527-6996.0000243
• Zavar, E.M. (2016). The role of magnetic agents in shaping post-disaster land use. Other. 56 38-46. Elsevier BV. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.04.037
• Zavar, E.M., Hagelman III, R.R. (2016). Land use change on U.S. floodplain buyout sites, 1990-2000. Other. 25 (3) 360-374. Emerald. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dpm-01-2016-0021
• Zavar, E., Hagelman, R.R., RugeleyM. (2015). Site, situation, and property owner decision- making after the 2002 Guadalupe River flood. Other. 35 249-257.
• Zavar, E.M. (2015). Residential perspectives: the value of Floodplain- buyout open space. Geographical Review. 105 (1) 78-95. Wiley-Blackwell. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2014.12047.x
• Hagelman, R.R., Connolly, M.H., Zavar, E.M., Dahal, K.R. (2012). Disaster reconstruction and business geography following the 2007 Greensburg, Kansas Tornado. Environmental Hazards. 11 (4) 283-302. Informa UK Limited. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2012.689249
• Zatoń, M., Wilson, M.A., Zavar, E.M. (2011). Diverse sclerozoan assemblages encrusting large bivalve shells from the Callovian (Middle Jurassic) of southern Poland. Other. 307 (1-4) 232-244. Elsevier BV. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.022

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Zavar, E., Brokopp Binder, S., Greer, A. (2019). Taking the Long View: Improving Home Buyout Programs Through Community Involvement. https://efficientgov.com/blog/2019/10/21/taking-the-long-view-improving-home-buyout-programs-through-community-involvement/
• Zavar, E.M., Greer, A., Brokopp Binder , S. (2019). After Disaster: Why Home Buyout Programs Fizzle Out. https://efficientgov.com/blog/2019/05/28/after-disaster-why-home-buyout-programs-fizzle-out

Research Report

• Zavar, E.M., Lavy, B., Hagelman III, R. (2019). Recovery of tourism-based economies along Texas Gulf Coast after Hurricane Harvey. Quick Response Grant Research Report. https://hazards.colorado.edu/quick-response-report/recovery-of-tourism-based-economies-on-the-texas-gulf-coast-after-hurricane-harvey

Scholarly Briefing / Blog

• Schumann, R.L., Zavar, E.M. (2022). Commemorating COVID: Opportunities for Community Recovery and Resilience. The Manchester Briefing. https://reliefweb.int/report/world/manchester-briefing-issue-46

Scholarly Note

• Schumann, R.L., Zavar, E.M. (2023). More Than Words in Stone: Commemorating Places Reshaped by Disaster. https://hazards.colorado.edu/news/research-counts/more-than-words-in-stone-commemorating-places-reshaped-by-disaster
• Zavar, E.M., Brokopp Binder, S., Greer, A. (2019). Engaging residents and community groups in post-buyout land use. A section for a Manual on the Use of Green Infrastructure in Mitigation. National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship

• Zavar, E.M. (Principal), "Memory, Relocation & Risk Reduction: Stakeholder Experiences Adapting to Changing Environments," sponsored by Fulbright, International, $38000 Funded. (2025 - 2025).
• Zavar, E., "Gulf Research Program’s Early-Career Research Fellowship," sponsored by National Academies of Science, National, $76000 Funded. (2020 - 2022).
• Zavar, E., "Gulf Research Program�s Early-Career Research Fellowship," sponsored by National Academies of Science, National, Funded. (2020 - 2022).

Grant - Research

• Zavar, E.M. (Principal), Greer, A. (Co-Principal), Brokopp BInder, S. (Co-Principal), Martinez, J. (Co-Principal), "DISES-EX: Integrating ecosystem services and stakeholder preferences to improve outcomes on post-buyout land," sponsored by NSF DISES, Federal, $738000 Funded. (2025 - 2028).
• Zavar, E. (Principal), Greer, A. (Co-Principal), Binder, S. (Co-Principal), "Forced relocation after Floods," sponsored by UNT Research Seed Grant, University of North Texas, $8000 Funded. (2020 - 2021).
• Zavar, E. (Principal), Greer, A. (Co-Principal), Binder, S. (Co-Principal), "Exploring the Design and Implementation of Buyout Programs in Post-Disaster," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $19975 Funded. (2018 - 2020).
• Zavar, E.M. (Principal), Lavy, B. (Co-Principal), Hagelman, R. (Co-Principal), "Recovery of tourism-based economies along the Texas Gulf Coast after Hurricane Harvey," sponsored by University of Colorado Boulder Quick Response Grant, International, $2000 Funded. (2018 - 2018).
• Zavar, E.M., "Greensburg, KS Reconstruction," sponsored by Southern Connecticut State University, Other, $5000 Funded. (2016 - 2016).
• Zavar, E.M., "Dissertation Research Grant," sponsored by AAG, Other, $500 Funded. (2013 - 2013).
• Zavar, E.M. (Principal), "NASEM Early Career Fellowship," sponsored by The National Academies of Sciences,, NFP, Funded. (2020 - 2022).
• Zavar, E. (Principal), Greer, A. (Co-Principal), Binder, S. (Co-Principal), "Exploring the Design and Implementation of Buyout Programs in Post-Disaster," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, Funded. (2018 - 2020).
• Zavar, E.M. (Principal), "RAPID: Exploring the Design and Implementation of Buyout Programs in Post-Disaster Settings," sponsored by National Science Foundation, FED, Funded. (2018 - 2020).
• Zavar, E. (Principal), Lavy, B. (Co-Principal), Hagelman, R. (Co-Principal), "Recovery of tourism-based economies along the Texas Gulf Coast after Hurricane Harvey," sponsored by University of Colorado Boulder Quick Response Grant, International, Funded. (2018 - 2018).