Disaster Impact Analysis

Natural and human-induced disaster events can cause a variety of damages that result in economic losses to many segments of the economy. The EIAP is recognized as a reliable and unbiased source for timely provision of credible estimates of the agricultural losses associated with disaster events in Florida and also has expertise in assessing the economic losses associated with marine hazard events such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and harmful algal blooms as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. Information about current projects as well as recent EIAP reports and academic publications that employ general regional economic analysis methods can be found on this page. Data visualizations associated with several projects are also available on the EIAP Data Platform. Outputs from past project can be accessed via the EIAP Research Archive. 

• Current Projects
  • Lessons from COVID-19: Positioning Regional Food Supply Chains for Future Pandemics, Natural Disasters and Human-made Crises
    Source of support: USDA-NIFA
  • Assessment of the short- and long-term socioeconomic impacts of Florida's 2017-2019 Red Tide Event
    Source of support: GCOOS/NOAA
• Recent Program Reports
  Estimated Agricultural Losses Resulting from Hurricane Ian, February 2023, Christa D. Court, Xiaohui Qiao, Bijeta Bijen Saha, Fei He, Kelsey McDaid

  Preliminary Assessment of Agricultural Losses Resulting from Hurricane Ian, October 2022, Christa D. Court, Xiaohui Qiao, Bijeta Bijen Saha, Fei He, Kelsey McDaid

  Quantifying the Socio-economic Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms in Southwest Florida in 2018, July 2021, Christa Court, Joao Ferreira, Andrew Ropicki, Xiaohui Qiao, Bijeta Saha.

  2020 Impacts of COVID-19 on the Florida Shellfish Aquaculture Industry, August 2020, Christa Court, Robert Botta, Leslie Sturmer, John Lai, Andrew Ropicki, Ed Camp.

  Preliminary Assessment of Agricultural Losses and Damages Resulting from Hurricane Sally, September 2020, Christa D. Court, Joao-Pedro Ferreira, Eyrika Orlando, Xiaohui Qiao

  County-Level Economic Losses for Florida Agriculture Resulting from Hurricane Michael, November 2018, Christa D. Court, Alan W. Hodges, and Caleb A. Stair.

  Economic Losses of Hurricane Irma on Agriculture in Florida Counties, August 2018, Alan W. Hodges, Christa D. Court, Rodney L. Clouser, John J. Vansickle, and Spiro E. Stefanou

• Recent Academic Publications

  Ferreira, J. P.,  E. Barata, C. Court, L. Cruz, and P. Ramos. (2021). The impact of Covid-19 on global value chains: Disruption in nonessential goods consumption. Regional Science Policy and Practice.

  Court, C. D.,  J. P. Ferreira, G. J. D. Hewings, and M. L.Lahr (2021): Accounting for global value chains: rising global inequality in the wake of COVID-19?, International Review of Applied Economics.

  Economic impacts of cancelled recreational trips to Northwest Florida after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Court, C. D., A. W. Hodges, R. L. Clouser, and S. L. Larkin. 2017