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Jennifer Helgeson

Jennifer is a research economist in the NIST Engineering Laboratory’s Applied Economics Office and associate program manager of the Community Resilience Program. Her research focuses on the economics of disaster resilience and adaptation. Jennifer holds a Ph.D. in environmental economics from the London School of Economics and a M.Sc. degree from the University of Oxford.

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The Trials and Triumphs of a Small City’s Hurricane Recovery Could Help Other Communities Bounce Back

January 19, 2022

In September 2018, a North Carolina city’s long road to recovery from Hurricane Matthew two years earlier became even longer. Lumberton, a small but diverse

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