Peer-Reviewed Articles

Han, Y., Ye, X., Atoba, K., Mozumder, P.  Chen, C., van den Bout, B., van Westen, C. (2024) Retreat from flood zones: simulating parcel urban land use change under community buyout policies. Cities. 149,2024,104953, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104953

 

Atoba, K., Newman, G., Sansom, G. (2023) Multi-Hazard Property Buyouts: Making a case for the acquisition of flood and contaminant-prone residential properties in Galena Park, TX Climate Risk Management, 41, 100529 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2023.100529

 

Billman, M*., Atoba, K. Thompson, M., Brody, S. (2023) How About Now? Changes in Risk Perception Before and After Hurricane Irma. Sustainability, 5(9):7680. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15097680

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Sansom, G. Hernandez, R, Johnson, R.N., Newman, G., Atoba, K., Masterson, J., Davis, D., and Fawkes, L. (2023) Evaluating the Impact of Proximity to Toxic Release Inventory Facilities and Flood Events on Chronic Health Outcomes in the City of Galena Park, Texas” Climate Risk Management. Accepted April 3rd, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2023.100507

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Ross, A. & Atoba, K. (2022) The Dimensions of Individual Support for Coastal Hazard Mitigation: Analysis of a Survey of Upper Texas Coast Residents. Natural Hazards Review https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000544.

 

Atoba, K., Newman, G., Brody, S., Highfield, W., Kim, Y., Juan, A. (2021) Buy them out before they are built: Evaluating the proactive acquisition of vacant land in flood-prone areas. Environmental Conservation, 48(2), 118-126. doi:10.1017/S0376892921000059

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Prybutok, S., Newman, G., Atoba, K., Sansom, G., Tao, Z. (2021) Combining Co$ting Nature and Suitability Modeling to Identify High Flood Risk Areas in Need of Nature-Based Services. Land 2021, 10, 853. https://doi.org/10.3390/ land10080853

 

Zhu, R., Newman, G, Atoba, K. (2021) Simulating the Impact of Land Use Change on Contaminant Transferal During Flood Events in Houston, Texas, USA. Landscape Journal.

 

Retchless, D. Mobley, W., Davlasheridze, M., Atoba, K., Ross, A., Highfield, W. (2021) Mapping Cross-Scale Impacts of Storm Surge Events: Considerations for Design and User Testing. Journal of Maps. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2021.1940325

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Newman, G., Malecha, M. & Atoba, K. (2021) Integrating ToxPi Outputs with Arc GIS Dashboards to Identify Neighborhood Threat Levels of Contaminant Transferal During Flood Events. Journal of Spatial Science:1-13. doi: 10.1080/14498596.2021.1891149

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Atoba, K., Brody, S., Highfield, W., Shepherd, C., & Verdone L. (2020). Strategic Property Buyouts to Enhance Flood Resilience: A Multi-Criteria Spatial Approach for Incorporating Ecological Values into the Selection Process. Environmental Hazards; Human and Policy https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2020.1771251​

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Mobley, W., Atoba, K., & Highfield, W. (2020) Uncertainty in Flood Mitigation Practices: Assessing the Economic Benefits of Property Acquisition and Elevation in Flood-Prone Communities. Sustainability 2020, 12(5), 2098; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12052098.

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Davlasheridze, M., Atoba, K., Highfield, W., Brody, S., Merrell, W., Purdue, A., & Gillmer, W. (2019) Economic Impacts of Storm Surge and the Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Coastal Spine as the Surge Mitigation Strategy in the Houston-Galveston Area in the United States. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 24 (3) 329-354.

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Atoba, K. Brody, S. Highfield, W., & Merrell, W. (2018) Estimating Residential Property Loss Reduction from a Proposed Coastal Barrier System in the Houston-Galveston Region. Natural Hazards Review 19(3).

 

Book Chapters

Atoba, K. (2022). Evaluating a proactive framework for the acquisition of vacant and built flood-prone properties in advance of flood events. In Lee, Y & Kothuis, B. (Eds.), Coastal Flood Risk Reduction in the Netherlands and the U.S. Upper Texas Coast. Elsevier.

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Davlasheridze, M. & Atoba, K. (2022). Cost-benefit analysis of a proposed coastal infrastructure for reducing storm surge induced impact in the Upper Texas Coast. In Lee, Y & Kothuis, B. (Eds.), Coastal Flood Risk Reduction in the Netherlands and the U.S. Upper Texas Coast. Elsevier.

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Brody, S., Atoba, K., Sebastian, A., Highfield, W., Blessing, R., Mobley, W., Stearns, L. (2021). A Comprehensive Framework for Coastal Flood Risk Reduction: Charting a Course Towards Resiliency. In Kousky, C., Fleming, B., and Berger, A (Eds.) A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation. Island Press

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Brody, S. & Atoba, K. (2018). Institutional Resilience: The Example of Flood Resiliency in the United States. In Fuchs, S. & Thaler, T. (Eds.), Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards (pp. 237-256). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Selected Technical Reports and Proceedings

Mobley, W., Atoba, K., & Highfield, W. Uncertainty in Flood Mitigation Practices: Assessing the Economic Benefits of Property Buyouts and Freeboard Elevation in Flood Prone Communities. In the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, October 24, 2019 Greenfield, South Carolina.

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Eye of the Storm. Report of the Governor’s Commission to Rebuild Texas. Commissioned by John Sharp. Atoba, K (2018): Contributed to Chapters 2, 3, 7 & 9, Future Proofing the Texas Coast. https://www.rebuildtexas.today/legislative-report-on-hurricane-harvey/

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Highfield, W. Brody, S., Atoba, K., & Blessing, R. (2018).  Identifying the Future Costs of Flooding in the Houston-Galveston Region. Final report submitted to the Texas General Land Office. Retrieved from https://www.glo.texas.gov/coastal-grants/_documents/grant-project/17-358-final-rpt.pdf

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Atoba, K. A Review of the Adaptive Capacity of New Towns to Flood Risk in the Netherlands. Case of Almere and Ijburg (2016). In Kothuis, B., Lee, Y., & Brody, S. (Eds.), NSF-PIRE Coastal Flood Risk Reduction Program Volume I, Pp 114-121. http://www.tamug.edu/ctbs/pdf/PIRE-Coastal-Flood-Risk-Reduction-2016-17.pdf.

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Brody, S., Blessing, R., Atoba, K., Mobley, W, & Wilson, M. (2014) A flood risk assessment of the San Jacinto river waste pit. Report for the Environmental Protection Agency Submitted by Center for Texas Beaches and Shores. Texas A&M University at Galveston, TX. https://semspub.epa.gov/work/06/9595219.pdf

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