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Taking Measure

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Juan Fung

Juan is an economist in the NIST Engineering Laboratory's Applied Economics Office. His research focuses on the economics of disaster resilience and seismic risk mitigation. Juan holds a Ph.D. in economics and an MS in statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Resilient Cedar Rapids: Rebuilding Better Pays Off

August 12, 2020

Many cities in the United States have experienced or will experience devastating losses caused by a natural disaster. In the aftermath of a disaster, the

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