CHEER Hub

The Coastal Hazards, Economic prosperity, and Resilience (CHEER) Hub is a five-year, $16.5 million project funded by the National Science Foundation's Coastlines and People (CoPe) program. It is headquartered in the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. The Hub seeks to understand and improve regional hurricane risk management by designing and evaluating policies and programs that (a) will be effective over the long term because they consider population growth, changing climate conditions, and the resilience of all stakeholders, and (b) are likely to actually be implemented because they align with stakeholders’ natural decision-making processes, offer win-win outcomes in which all stakeholders are better off, and address multiple objectives, including economic prosperity.