A/ProfPernille Christensen

I am currently active in the following research areas:

• Conceptual understanding of resilience and sustainability in the built environment - with a particular interest in urban environments;
• Decision-making related to urban resilience and sustainability in the built environment (including, carbon-neutral cities, resilient cities, mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change);
• Disaster management and planning - improving decision-making related to natural and man-made disaster planning, mitigation, adaptation, and strategy development; disaster risk and disaster risk reduction strategies;
• Counter-terrorism protective security - adaptation and mitigation planning for social/man-made disruptions;
• Affordable housing (including, strategies for increasing supply, incentive structures, strategies for sustainable affordable housing development and the impact of sustainability measures on affordability)

Key Collaborators include:

• Professor David McIlhatton, Institute Director, Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University
• Matthew Francis, Professor of Practice (Security and Resilience), Coventry University
• Professor Rachel Monaghan, Professor of Peace and Conflict, Coventry University
• Bianca Slocombe, Assistant Professor, Coventry University
• Professor Mary Brydon-Miller, University of Louisville
• Professor David Chapman, University of Central Oklahoma
• Professor Spenser Robinson, Chairperson Entrepreneurship, Campbell Endowed Professor, Central Michigan University
• Professor Roby Simons, Cleveland State University
• Professor Andrew Sanderford, Robert M. White Professor in Real Estate Finance, Director of the Center for Real Estate and the Built Environment, University of Virginia
• Sarah Sayce, Professor Emeritus, Kingston University