Research, Media Mentions,
and Conference Presentations
Selected Publications:
Miller, R.G., and Pinter, N. (2022). Flood risk and residential real-estate prices: A difference-in-differences analysis in three US counties. Journal of Flood Risk Management 15(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12774
Miller, R.G., and Pinter, N. (2022, September 25). Federal Disaster Assistance to California. California Water Blog. https://californiawaterblog.com/2022/09/25/federal-disaster-assistance-to-california/
Miller, R.G., Hansen, P., and Pinter, N. (2021, September 19). Risk Rating 2.0: A first look at FEMA’s new flood insurance system. California Water Blog. https://californiawaterblog.com/2021/09/19/risk-rating-2-0-a-first-look-at-femas-new-flood-insurance-system/
Tsournos, P., Miller, R.G., Chaudhry, A. M., & Franklin, C.B. (2016). Economic Value of Recreation on the Sacramento River - Results of a Year-Long Survey of Recreational Visitors at all Public Access Sites on the Sacramento River. Technical report prepared for California Department of Water Resources. https://www.sacramentoriver.org/forum/index.php?id=library&rec=1189
Chaudhry, A. M., Tsournos, P., Brimlow, J., Miller, R.G. (2016). Conservation and the Agricultural Landowner - Results of a Survey of Agricultural Landowners in the Sacramento River Corridor. Technical report prepared for California Department of Water Resources.
https://www.sacramentoriver.org/forum/index.php?id=library&rec=1187
Miller, R. (2012). California Broadband Report: A Summary of Broadband Availability and Adoption in California as of June 30, 2011. Technical report prepared for the Communications Division of the California Public Utilities Commission. https://www.cetfund.org/report/california-broadband-report/
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Media Mentions:
CBS News - Paradise residents who relocated after deadly Camp Fire still face extreme weather risks. June 12, 2024
NPR News - A California town wiped off the map by wildfire is still recovering 5 years on. November 8, 2023
KQED - One potential solution to deadly fires in the wilderness: Don't build there. June 12, 2019
North State Public Radio - Where Exactly Is Northern California? September 14, 2017
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Conference Presentations:
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“Mapping the Disaster Diaspora: Using Consumer Databases to Understand Population Relocations”
California Geographical Society, Los Angeles, CA (2023)
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“Understanding Changes in Commuting to Campus Amid and After COVID-19: Insights from the 2019 through 2021 UC Davis Campus Travel Survey”
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Toronto, ON (2022)
“Risk, real estate, and climate gentrification: a Difference-in-difference analysis of three U.S. counties”
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Flagstaff, AZ (2019)
“A Long Emergency: The Post-Camp Fire Housing and Transportation Crisis in Butte County”
California Geographical Society, Big Bear Lake, CA (2019)
“A New Approach to Writing in an Introductory Physical Geography Course”
California Geographical Society, Elk Grove, CA (2018)
“An Analysis of Crime Rates in Rural California Counties following AB 109 and Prop 47”
California Geographical Society, San Diego, CA (2017)
“Redesigning Geography 101 for our reality”
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Portland, OR (2016)
“Conservation and the agricultural landowner”
California Geographical Society, San Jose, CA (2016)
“Assessing the economic effects of habitat conservation along the Sacramento River”
California Geographical Society, Arcata, CA (2015)
“Broadband Access in California”
California Geographical Society, San Luis Obispo, CA (2013)
“Off-ramps to nowhere: CA State Route 149”
California Geographical Society, Davis, CA (2012)
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“Mapping fuel consumption in California: How where you live affects how you drive”
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, San Francisco, CA (2011)
“Suburban Decline”
California Geographical Society: Bishop, CA (2011)
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