Wanyun Shao
Assistant Professor
- 331D Farrah Hall
- (205) 348-2969
- wshao1@ua.edu
Education
- 331D Farrah Hall
- (205) 348-2969
- wshao1@ua.edu
Education
Ph. D., Geography, Louisiana State University, 2012
M.P., Planning, University of Wyoming, 2009
B. Sc. Geography, Jilin University (China) 2006
Affiliations
Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research
Associate Editor, Palgrave Communications (a Springer Nature journal)
Research Groups
Research Interests
Human dimensional climate change; environmental risk perceptions; community resilience to environmental hazards; environmental policy; natural hazards; social impacts of flooding
Selected Publications
- Risk Perceptions of COVID–19 in a Highly Polarized Environment
- Understanding Evangelical Protestant Identity, Religiosity, Extreme Weather, and American Public Perceptions of Global Warming, 2006-2016
- A place-based assessment of flash flood hazard and vulnerability in the contiguous United States
- Approval of political leaders can slant evaluation of political issues: Evidence from public concern for climate change in the USA.
- A spatial epidemiology case study of mentally unhealthy days (MUDs): Air pollution, community resilience, and sunlight perspectives
