Sahar Derakhshan

Sahar Derakhshan

Assistant Professor, Geography and Anthropology, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

Recent Publications

Derakhshan, S., D. Eisenman, R. Basu, and T. Longcore (2023). “Do social vulnerability indices correlate with extreme heat health outcomes?”. The Journal of Climate Change and Health. doi: 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100276 

Derakhshan, S., T.N. Bautista, M. Bouwman, L. Huang, L. Lee, J. Tarczynski, I. Wahagheghe, W. Zeng, and T. Longcore (2023). “Smartphone locations reveal patterns of cooling center use as a heat mitigation strategy”. Journal of Applied Geography 150. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102821 

Burton, H.V., S.G. Madero, A. Kologo, L. Dahal, and S. Derakhshan (2023). “Sociodemographic analysis of unbraced unbolted cripple wall retrofits in the city of Los Angeles. Earthquake Spectra. doi: 10.1177/87552930231202449 

Derakhshan, S., Ch. Emrich, and S. L. Cutter (2022). “Degree and Direction of Overlap between Social Vulnerability and Community Resilience Measurements”. PLoS ONE 17(10): e0275975. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275975 

Derakhshan, S., L. Blackwood, M. Habets, J. F. Effgen, and S. L. Cutter (2022). “Prisoners of Scale: Downscaling Community Resilience Measurements for Enhanced Use”. Sustainability. 2022; 14(11):6927. doi: 10.3390/su14116927 

Derakhshan, S., M. E. Hodgson, and S. L. Cutter (2020). “Vulnerability of Populations Exposed to Seismic Risk in the State of Oklahoma.” Journal of Applied Geography 124. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102295 

Derakhshan, S., S. L. Cutter, and C. Wang (2020). “Remote sensing derived indices for tracking urban land surface change in case of earthquake recovery”. Journal of Remote Sensing 12, 895. doi: 10.3390/rs12050895 

Chang, S.E., C. Brown, J. Handmer, J. Helgeson, Y. Kajitani, A. Keating, I. Noy, M. Watson, S. Derakhshan, J. Kim, A. Roa-Henriquez (2022). “Business Recovery from Disasters: Lessons from Natural Hazards and the COVID-19 Pandemic”. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103191 

Bui, L., Sh. Sylman, G. Álvarez Rosario, M. Commodore-Mensah, S. Derakhshan, C. McDermot, F. Nibbs, I. Higgs, M. Adegoke, and R. Lane. (2022). “Transdisciplinary Rapid Reconnaissance after Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the U.S. Virgin Islands: A Pathway toward Convergence” International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 

Jackson, S., S. Derakhshan, L. Blackwood, L. Lee, Q. Huang, M. Habets, and S.L. Cutter (2021). “Spatial Disparities in COVID -19 Cases and Fatalities in United States Counties”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, 8259. doi:10.3390/ ijerph18168259 

Huang, Q., S. Jackson, S. Derakhshan, E. Pham, L. Lee, A. Jackson, and S.L.Cutter. (2021) “Urban Rural Differences in COVID-19 Exposures and Outcomes in the South: A Preliminary Analysis of South Carolina”. PLoS ONE 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246548 

Bozorgnia, Y., N. A. Abrahamson, S. K. Ahdi, T. D. Ancheta, L. A. Atik, R. J. Archuleta, G. M. Atkinson, D. M. Boore, K. W. Campbell, B. S-J Chiou, V. Contreras, R. B. Darragh, S. Derakhshan, J. L. Donahue, N. Gregor, Z. Gulerce, I. M. Idriss, C. Ji, T. Kishida, … and R. R. Youngs (2021). Nga-Subduction Research Program. Earthquake Spectra. doi: 10.1177/87552930211056081 

Cutter, S. L., and S. Derakhshan (2019). “Implementing Disaster Policy: Exploring Scale and Measurement Schemes for Disaster Resilience.” Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 16(3). doi: 10.1515/jhsem-2018-0029 

Cutter, S. L., and S. Derakhshan (2018). “Temporal and spatial change in disaster resilience in US counties, 2010–2015.” Environmental Hazards, 1–20. doi: 10.1080/17477891.2018.1511405